Celtic Fairy Tales, XVII. Sea-maiden., sentence 25
In this Cuchulain finds that the daughter of Ruad is to be given as a tribute to the Fomori, who, according to Prof.
What happens: find, give, accord · To what, where: Cuchulain, daughter, Fomori · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVII. Sea-maiden.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 Cuchulain | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 Cuchulain | det |
| 3 | Cuchulain | Cuchulain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 finds | obl |
| 4 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 given | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 daughter | det |
| 7 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 given | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Ruad | case |
| 9 | Ruad | Ruad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 daughter | nmod |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 given | aux |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 given | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 given | aux:pass |
| 13 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 finds | ccomp |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 tribute | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 tribute | det |
| 16 | tribute | tribute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 given | obl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Fomori | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Fomori | det |
| 19 | Fomori | Fomori | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 given | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Prof | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 Prof | nsubj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Prof | punct |
| 23 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 Prof | case |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 according | fixed |
| 25 | Prof | Prof | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Fomori | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 finds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | this Cuchulain | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | give | present · passive | the daughter of Ruad | the Fomori and Prof | as a tribute | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to fomori=Recipient | |||
| 3 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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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