Celtic Fairy Tales, XVIII. Legend of Knockmany., sentence 5
_Remarks_.--Though the venerable names of Finn and Cucullin (Cuchulain) are attached to the heroes of this story, this is probably only to give an extrinsic interest to it.
Who acts: this · What happens: attach, be, name · To what, where: venerable names, interest, Finn
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 (this), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Remarks | punct |
| 2 | Remarks | remark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 attached | obl |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Remarks | punct |
| 4 | .-- | .-- | PUNCT | _ | 8 names | punct |
| 5 | Though | though | SCONJ | _ | 8 names | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 names | det |
| 7 | venerable | venerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 names | amod |
| 8 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 attached | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Finn | case |
| 10 | Finn | Finn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 names | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Cucullin | cc |
| 12 | Cucullin | Cucullin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Finn | conj |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 Cuchulain | punct |
| 14 | Cuchulain | Cuchulain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Cucullin | appos |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 Cuchulain | punct |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 attached | aux:pass |
| 17 | attached | attach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 heroes | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 heroes | det |
| 20 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 attached | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 story | case |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 story | det |
| 23 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 heroes | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 give | punct |
| 25 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 give | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 give | cop |
| 27 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 30 give | advmod |
| 28 | only | only | ADV | _ | 30 give | advmod |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 give | mark |
| 30 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 attached | parataxis |
| 31 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 interest | det |
| 32 | extrinsic | extrinsic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 interest | amod |
| 33 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 give | obj |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 it | case |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 give | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 attached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attach | present · passive | the venerable names of Finn and Cucullin | to the heroes of this story; Remarks obl | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to hero=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | this | interest | give, probably property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | name | Finn and Cucullin | nom name «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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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