Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 64

The application of the general legend of "the man who slew his greyhound" to the dog Cylart, was due to the learning of E. Jones, author of the _Musical Relicks_.

Who acts: man, application, general legend · What happens: slay, be, apply · To what, where: 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 (man, application, general legend), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 application	det
2	application	application	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 learning	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 legend	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 legend	det
5	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 legend	amod
6	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 application	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 man	case
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 man	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 legend	nmod
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 slew	nsubj
12	slew	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 man	acl:relcl
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 greyhound	nmod:poss
14	greyhound	greyhound	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 slew	obj
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 greyhound	punct
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 dog	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 dog	det
18	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 slew	obl
19	Cylart	Cylart	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 dog	appos
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 application	punct
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 learning	cop
22	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	25 learning	case
23	to	to	ADP	_	22 due	fixed
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 learning	det
25	learning	learning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 E.	case
27	E.	E.	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 learning	nmod
28	Jones	Jones	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 E.	flat
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 author	punct
30	author	author	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 learning	parataxis
31	of	of	ADP	_	35 Relicks	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Relicks	det
33	_	_	PUNCT	_	35 Relicks	punct
34	Musical	musical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 Relicks	amod
35	Relicks	Relicks	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 author	nmod
36	_	_	PUNCT	_	30 author	punct
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 learning	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	slay in a quote	past	the man	man's greyhound	to the dog	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent greyhound=Patient
2	is	past	the application of the general legend of the man		due the learning; of E.	tree rules
3	apply		the general legend of the man			nom application «act intransitive»: of=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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