Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 36

We have thus traced it to England whence it passed to Wales, where I have discovered it as the second apologue of "The Fables of Cattwg the Wise," in the Iolo MS. published by the Welsh MS. Society, p.561, "The man who killed his Greyhound."

Who acts: English, I, man · What happens: trace, pass, discover, publish, kill · To what, where: We, England, Wales, English, Iolo MS., Greyhound

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 (English, I, man), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 traced	nsubj:pass
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 traced	aux
3	thus	thus	ADV	_	4 traced	advmod
4	traced	trace	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 traced	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 England	case
7	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 traced	obl
8	whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	10 passed	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 passed	nsubj
10	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 traced	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 Wales	case
12	Wales	Wales	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 passed	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 discovered	punct
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 discovered	advmod
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 discovered	nsubj
16	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 discovered	aux
17	discovered	discover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 passed	parataxis
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 discovered	obj
19	as	as	ADP	_	22 apologue	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 apologue	det
21	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	22 apologue	amod
22	apologue	apologue	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 discovered	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 Fables	case
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 Fables	punct
25	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Fables	det
26	Fables	Fable	PROPN	Number=Plur	22 apologue	nmod
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 Cattwg	case
28	Cattwg	Cattwg	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Fables	nmod
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Wise	det
30	Wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 Fables	acl:relcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Fables	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 Fables	punct
33	in	in	ADP	_	36 MS.	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 MS.	det
35	Iolo	Iolo	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 MS.	compound
36	MS.	MS.	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 discovered	obl
37	published	publish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 discovered	acl
38	by	by	ADP	_	42 Society	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 Society	det
40	Welsh	Welsh	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 Society	compound
41	MS.	MS.	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 Society	nmod:desc
42	Society	Society	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 published	obl:agent
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 p.561	punct
44	p.561	p.561	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	42 Society	list
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 man	punct
46	"	"	PUNCT	_	48 man	punct
47	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 man	det
48	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 Society	appos
49	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	50 killed	nsubj
50	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 man	acl:relcl
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 Greyhound	nmod:poss
52	Greyhound	greyhound	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 killed	obj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 traced	punct
54	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 traced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	trace	present · perfect · passive		We	England		thus property	tree rules
2	pass	past	English			Wales	whence property	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wales=Initial_Location
3	discover	present · perfect	I	English		the Iolo MS.	as the second apologue of the Fables of Cattwg	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
4	publish	participle						vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	kill in a quote	past	the man	England's Greyhound				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent greyhound=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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