Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 17

_), the story of the man who rashly slew the dog (ichneumon, weasel, &c.) that had saved his babe from death, is one of those which have spread from East to West.

Who acts: man, that, story · What happens: slay, save, be, spread · To what, where: dog, babe, death, one, West, East

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 (man, that, story), 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	_	5 story	punct
2	)	)	PUNCT	_	1 _	punct
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 story	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 story	det
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 one	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 man	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 story	nmod
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 slew	nsubj
10	rashly	rashly	ADV	_	11 slew	advmod
11	slew	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 man	acl:relcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 dog	det
13	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 slew	obj
14	(	(	PUNCT	_	15 ichneumon	punct
15	ichneumon	ichneumon	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dog	appos
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 weasel	punct
17	weasel	weasel	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ichneumon	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 c.	punct
19	&	&	CCONJ	_	20 c.	cc
20	c.	c.	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 story	appos
21	)	)	PUNCT	_	20 c.	punct
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 saved	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 saved	aux
24	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 story	parataxis
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 babe	nmod:poss
26	babe	babe	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 saved	obj
27	from	from	ADP	_	28 death	case
28	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 saved	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 story	punct
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 one	cop
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 those	case
33	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	31 one	nmod
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 spread	nsubj:pass
35	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 spread	aux
36	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 one	parataxis
37	from	from	ADP	_	38 East	case
38	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 spread	obl
39	to	to	ADP	_	40 West	case
40	West	West	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 spread	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	slay	past	the man	the dog			rashly property	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient
2	save	past · perfect	that	weasel's babe		death		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent babe=Theme from death=Source
3	is a	present	the story of the man	one			of those	tree rules
4	spread	present · perfect · passive			West	East		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

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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