Celtic Fairy Tales, XVII. Sea-maiden., sentence 30
I may add to this that in Mr. Curtin's _Myths_, 330, the threefold trial of the sword is told of Cuchulain.
Who acts: I, _ Myths · What happens: add, tell, try · To what, where: that, threefold trial, sword · 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: who acts (I, _ Myths), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 add | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 add | aux |
| 3 | add | add | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 this | case |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 add | obl |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 add | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Myths | case |
| 8 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Curtin | nmod:desc |
| 9 | Curtin | Curtin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Myths | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Curtin | case |
| 11 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Myths | compound |
| 12 | Myths | Myths | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 add | parataxis |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 Myths | punct |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 330 | punct |
| 15 | 330 | 330 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 Myths | flat |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 trial | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 trial | det |
| 18 | threefold | threefold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 trial | amod |
| 19 | trial | trial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 told | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 sword | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sword | det |
| 22 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 trial | nmod |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 told | aux:pass |
| 24 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 Myths | acl:relcl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Cuchulain | case |
| 26 | Cuchulain | Cuchulain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 told | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 add | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | may | I | that | to this | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent that=Patient to this=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present · passive | Curtin Mr.'s _ Myths not said here | the threefold trial of the sword | of Cuchulain | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||
| 3 | try | the sword | nom trial «act 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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