Celtic Fairy Tales, XVIII. Legend of Knockmany., sentence 14
Cucullin's power-finger is another instance of the life-index or external soul, on which see remarks on Sea-Maiden.
Who acts: power finger, instance · What happens: be, see · To what, where: instance, remarks, Sea
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVIII. Legend of Knockmany.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (power finger, instance), 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 | Cucullin | Cucullin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 finger | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Cucullin | case |
| 3 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 finger | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 power | punct |
| 5 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 instance | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 instance | cop |
| 7 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 instance | det |
| 8 | instance | instance | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 index | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 index | det |
| 11 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 index | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 life | punct |
| 13 | index | index | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 instance | nmod |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 soul | cc |
| 15 | external | external | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 soul | amod |
| 16 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 index | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 see | punct |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 which | case |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 see | nsubj |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 instance | parataxis |
| 21 | remarks | remark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 see | obj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 Sea | case |
| 23 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 see | obl |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 Maiden | punct |
| 25 | Maiden | Maiden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Sea | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 instance | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Cucullin's power finger | another instance | of the life index or external soul | tree rules | |||
| 2 | see | present | another instance | remarks | Sea and Maiden | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer remark=Stimulus |
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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