Celtic Fairy Tales, XIII. the Wooing of Olwen., sentence 16
For it is referred to in the following passage of Nennius' _Historia Britonum_ ed.
Who acts: Nennius · What happens: refer, follow, pass · To what, where: hunting
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 (Nennius), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 4 referred | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 referred | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 referred | aux:pass |
| 4 | referred | refer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 passage | case |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 passage | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 passage | det |
| 8 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 passage | amod |
| 9 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 referred | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Nennius | case |
| 11 | Nennius | Nennius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 passage | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 11 Nennius | case |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 ed | punct |
| 14 | Historia | Historia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 ed | compound |
| 15 | Britonum | Britonum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Historia | flat |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 ed | punct |
| 17 | ed | ed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 referred | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 referred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refer | present · passive | hunting | Historia ed obl | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | pass | Nennius | nom passage «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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