Celtic Fairy Tales, XIII. the Wooing of Olwen., sentence 3
Rhys, _Hibbert Lectures_, p. 486, considers that our tale is paralleled by Cuchulain's "Wooing of Emer," a translation of which by Prof.
Who acts: Rhys, Cuchulain, our, Emer · What happens: consider, parallel, woo, tell, translate · To what, where: tale · 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 (Rhys, Cuchulain, our, Emer), 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 | Rhys | Rhys | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 considers | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Rhys | punct |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 Lectures | punct |
| 4 | Hibbert | Hibbert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Lectures | compound |
| 5 | Lectures | lecture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Rhys | appos |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 Lectures | punct |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 p. | punct |
| 8 | p. | P. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Rhys | conj |
| 9 | 486 | 486 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 p. | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Rhys | punct |
| 11 | considers | consider | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 paralleled | mark |
| 13 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 tale | nmod:poss |
| 14 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 paralleled | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 paralleled | aux:pass |
| 16 | paralleled | parallel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 considers | advcl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 Cuchulain | case |
| 18 | Cuchulain | Cuchulain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 paralleled | obl:agent |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 Cuchulain | case |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 Wooing | punct |
| 21 | Wooing | woo | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 Cuchulain | acl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Emer | case |
| 23 | Emer | Emer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Wooing | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 translation | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 translation | punct |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 translation | det |
| 27 | translation | translation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Emer | appos |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 which | case |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 translation | nmod |
| 30 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 Prof | case |
| 31 | Prof | Prof | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 which | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 considers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consider | present | Rhys and p. | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | parallel | present · passive | Cuchulain | our tale | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | woo in a quote | gerund | Cuchulain not said here | of Emer | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | tell | our | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | translate | Emer | nom translation «communication intransitive»: of=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/47/3/