Celtic Fairy Tales, XV. Shee an Gannon and Gruagach Gaire., sentence 11
This is confirmed by the fact that a thirteenth century French romance, _Conte du Graal_, has much the same incidents, and was probably derived from a similar folk-tale of the Celts.
Who acts: fact, thirteenth century, Celts · What happens: confirm, romance, have, derive, tell · To what, where: This, same incidents, similar folk tale · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XV. Shee an Gannon and Gruagach Gaire.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fact, thirteenth century, Celts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 confirmed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 confirmed | aux:pass |
| 3 | confirmed | confirm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 fact | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fact | det |
| 6 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 confirmed | obl |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 romance | mark |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 century | det |
| 9 | thirteenth | thirteenth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 century | amod |
| 10 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 romance | nsubj |
| 11 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 romance | amod |
| 12 | romance | romance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fact | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Conte | punct |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 Conte | punct |
| 15 | Conte | Conte | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 romance | appos |
| 16 | du | du | ADP | _ | 17 Graal | case |
| 17 | Graal | Graal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Conte | nmod |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 Conte | punct |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 has | punct |
| 20 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 confirmed | conj |
| 21 | much | much | ADV | _ | 24 incidents | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 incidents | det |
| 23 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 incidents | amod |
| 24 | incidents | incident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 has | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 derived | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 derived | cc |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 derived | aux:pass |
| 28 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 29 derived | advmod |
| 29 | derived | derive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 confirmed | conj |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 35 tale | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 tale | det |
| 32 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 tale | amod |
| 33 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 tale | compound |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 folk | punct |
| 35 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 derived | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 Celts | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Celts | det |
| 38 | Celts | Celt | PROPN | Number=Plur | 35 tale | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 confirmed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | confirm | present · passive | the fact | This | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | romance | a thirteenth century | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | have | present | the fact not said here | the same incidents | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent incident=Patient | ||||
| 4 | derive | past · passive | the fact not said here | a similar folk tale of the Celts | probably property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: from tale=Material | |||
| 5 | tell | the Celts | nom tale «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.
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