Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 24
This concludes with a strangely close parallel to Gellert; "They raised a cairn over his grave, and the place is still called The Dog's Grave."
Who acts: This, Parallels · What happens: conclude, raise, call · To what, where: cairn, grave, place · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (This, Parallels), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 concludes | nsubj |
| 2 | concludes | conclude | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 parallel | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 parallel | det |
| 5 | strangely | strangely | ADV | _ | 6 close | advmod |
| 6 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 parallel | amod |
| 7 | parallel | parallel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 concludes | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Gellert | case |
| 9 | Gellert | Gellert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 parallel | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 raised | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 raised | punct |
| 12 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 raised | nsubj |
| 13 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 concludes | parataxis |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 cairn | det |
| 15 | cairn | cairn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 raised | obj |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 grave | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 grave | nmod:poss |
| 18 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 raised | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 called | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 called | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 place | det |
| 22 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 called | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 called | aux:pass |
| 24 | still | still | ADV | _ | 25 called | advmod |
| 25 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 raised | conj |
| 26 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Dog | det |
| 27 | Dog | Dog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Grave | nmod:poss |
| 28 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 27 Dog | case |
| 29 | Grave | Grave | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 called | xcomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 concludes | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 concludes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conclude | present | This | with a close parallel to Gellert | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | raise in a quote | past | Parallels = parallel | a cairn | Gellert's grave | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cairn=Theme over grave=Destination | |||
| 3 | call in a quote | present · passive | the place | still | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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