Celtic Fairy Tales, XIII. the Wooing of Olwen., sentence 20
Curiously enough there is still a mountain called Carn Cabal in the district of Builth, south of Rhayader Gwy in Breconshire.
Who acts: mountain · What happens: be, call · To what, where: mountain, district · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (mountain), 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 | Curiously | curiously | ADV | _ | 4 is | advmod |
| 2 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 1 Curiously | advmod |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 is | expl |
| 4 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 is | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 mountain | det |
| 7 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 is | nsubj |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 mountain | acl |
| 9 | Carn | Carn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 called | xcomp |
| 10 | Cabal | Cabal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Carn | flat |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 district | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 district | det |
| 13 | district | district | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 called | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Builth | case |
| 15 | Builth | Builth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 district | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Rhayader | punct |
| 17 | south | south | ADV | _ | 19 Rhayader | compound |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Rhayader | case |
| 19 | Rhayader | Rhayader | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 district | appos |
| 20 | Gwy | Gwy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Rhayader | flat |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 Breconshire | case |
| 22 | Breconshire | Breconshire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Rhayader | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a mountain | there | still | curiously property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||
| 2 | call | participle | a mountain not said here | the district of Builth | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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