Celtic Fairy Tales, XIII. the Wooing of Olwen., sentence 15

_Remarks_.--The hunting of the boar Trwyth can be traced back in Welsh tradition at least as early as the ninth century.

Who acts: Remarks · What happens: trace back, hunt · To what, where: hunting, Welsh tradition, boar

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIII. the Wooing of Olwen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Remarks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 Remarks	punct
2	Remarks	remark	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	_	_	PUNCT	_	13 traced	punct
4	.--	.--	PUNCT	_	13 traced	punct
5	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hunting	det
6	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 traced	nsubj:pass
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 boar	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boar	det
9	boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hunting	nmod
10	Trwyth	Trwyth	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 boar	appos
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 traced	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 traced	aux:pass
13	traced	trace	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Remarks	acl:relcl
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 traced	advmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 tradition	case
16	Welsh	Welsh	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 tradition	compound
17	tradition	tradition	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 traced	obl
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 least	case
19	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 early	obl
20	as	as	ADV	_	21 early	advmod
21	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 tradition	advmod
22	as	as	ADP	_	25 century	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 century	det
24	ninth	ninth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 century	amod
25	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 early	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Remarks	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trace back	can · passive	Remarks not said here	the hunting of the boar		Welsh tradition			vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in tradition=Destination
2	hunt			the boar					nom hunting «act transitive»: of=patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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