Celtic Fairy Tales, XVI. the Story-teller At Fault., sentence 25

These "runs" are often similar in both the Irish and the Scotch form of the same tale or of the same incident.

Who acts: runs · What happens: be, form · To what, where: Irish, same tale

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 (runs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7885:2547): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 runs	det
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 runs	punct
3	runs	run	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 similar	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 runs	punct
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 similar	cop
6	often	often	ADV	_	7 similar	advmod
7	similar	similar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 Irish	case
9	both	both	CCONJ	_	11 Irish	cc:preconj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Irish	det
11	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 similar	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 form	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 form	det
14	Scotch	Scotch	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 form	amod
15	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Irish	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 tale	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 tale	det
18	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 tale	amod
19	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 form	nmod
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 incident	cc
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 incident	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 incident	det
23	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 incident	amod
24	incident	incident	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tale	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 similar	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	this runs			the Irish and the Scotch form of the same tale or the same incident		often, similar property	tree rules
2	form			the same tale or the same incident					nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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