Celtic Fairy Tales, XVII. Sea-maiden., sentence 34

There is a further question whether the story was originally told of Cuchulain as a hero-tale and then became departicularised as a folk-tale, or was the process _vice versa_.

Who acts: further question · What happens: be, tell, become, departicularis · To what, where: story, process · 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 (further question), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 question	det
4	further	further	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 question	amod
5	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
6	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	11 told	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 story	det
8	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 told	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 told	aux:pass
10	originally	originally	ADV	_	11 told	advmod
11	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 question	acl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Cuchulain	case
13	Cuchulain	Cuchulain	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 told	obl
14	as	as	ADP	_	18 tale	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 tale	det
16	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tale	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 hero	punct
18	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 told	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 became	cc
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 became	advmod
21	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 tale	conj
22	departicularised	departicularis	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 became	xcomp
23	as	as	ADP	_	27 tale	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 tale	det
25	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tale	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 folk	punct
27	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 departicularised	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 process	punct
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 process	cc
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 process	cop
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 process	det
32	process	process	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	parataxis
33	_	_	PUNCT	_	34 vice	punct
34	vice	vice	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 process	conj
35	versa	versa	ADV	_	34 vice	advmod
36	_	_	PUNCT	_	32 process	punct
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	a further question		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past · passive	a further question not said here	the story			of Cuchulain; as a hero tale; originally property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	become	past	a further question not said here			then		tree rules
4	departicularis	participle	a further question not said here				as a folk tale	tree rules
5	is a	past		the process and vice				tree rules

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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