Celtic Fairy Tales, XVI. the Story-teller At Fault., sentence 23

136, 140, are instances of a curious characteristic of Gaelic folk-tales called "runs."

Who acts: 136 instances · What happens: be, call, run · To what, where: 136 instances, Gaelic folk tales · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVI. the Story-teller At Fault.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (136 instances), 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	136	136	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 instances	nummod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 140	punct
3	140	140	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 136	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 140	punct
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 instances	cop
6	instances	instance	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 runs	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 characteristic	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 characteristic	det
9	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 characteristic	amod
10	characteristic	characteristic	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 runs	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 tales	case
12	Gaelic	gaelic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 tales	amod
13	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tales	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 folk	punct
15	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 characteristic	nmod
16	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 tales	acl
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 called	punct
18	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 runs	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 runs	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present		136 instances		tree rules
2	call speech: assert	participle		Gaelic folk tales not said here		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	run in a quote	present	136 instances		of a curious characteristic of Gaelic folk tales	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of characteristic=Trajectory

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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