Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 13
_Parallels_.--The only parallel in Celtdom is that noticed by Croker in his third volume, the legend of Partholan who killed his wife's greyhound from jealousy: this is found sculptured in stone at Ap Brune, co. Limerick.
Who acts: Croker, legend, this · What happens: notice, kill, find, sculpture · To what, where: Parallels, third volume, greyhound, jealousy, this, stone
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Beth Gellert.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Croker, legend, 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 Parallels | punct |
| 2 | Parallels | parallel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 noticed | nsubj |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Parallels | punct |
| 4 | .-- | .-- | PUNCT | _ | 12 noticed | punct |
| 5 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 parallel | det |
| 6 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 parallel | amod |
| 7 | parallel | parallel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 noticed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Celtdom | case |
| 9 | Celtdom | Celtdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 parallel | nmod |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 noticed | aux:pass |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 noticed | mark |
| 12 | noticed | notice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 Croker | case |
| 14 | Croker | Croker | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 noticed | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 volume | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 volume | nmod:poss |
| 17 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 volume | amod |
| 18 | volume | volume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 noticed | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 legend | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 legend | det |
| 21 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 volume | appos |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Partholan | case |
| 23 | Partholan | Partholan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 legend | nmod |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 killed | nsubj |
| 25 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 legend | acl:relcl |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 wife | nmod:poss |
| 27 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 greyhound | nmod:poss |
| 28 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 27 wife | case |
| 29 | greyhound | greyhound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 killed | obj |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 jealousy | case |
| 31 | jealousy | jealousy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 killed | obl |
| 32 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 35 found | punct |
| 33 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 found | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 found | aux:pass |
| 35 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 noticed | parataxis |
| 36 | sculptured | sculpture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 found | xcomp |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 stone | case |
| 38 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 sculptured | obl |
| 39 | at | at | ADP | _ | 41 Brune | case |
| 40 | Ap | Ap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Brune | compound |
| 41 | Brune | Brune | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 sculptured | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 Limerick | punct |
| 43 | co. | Co. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 Limerick | compound |
| 44 | Limerick | Limerick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Brune | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | present · passive | Croker | Parallels | Croker's third volume | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | kill | past | the legend of Partholan | Partholan's wife's greyhound | jealousy | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent greyhound=Theme from jealousy=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | find | present · passive | this | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | sculpture | participle | this not said here | stone | at Ap Brune and co. Limerick | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: 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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