Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 67

The cairn was thus a monument of a "record" run of a greyhound: the _englyn_ quoted by Jones is suitable enough for this, while quite inadequate to record the later legendary exploits of Gelert.

Who acts: cairn, englyn · What happens: be, quote, record, run · To what, where: monument, later legendary exploits, 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 (cairn, englyn), 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 cairn	det
2	cairn	cairn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 monument	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 monument	cop
4	thus	thus	ADV	_	6 monument	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 monument	det
6	monument	monument	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	12 run	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 run	det
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 record	punct
10	record	record	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 run	compound
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 record	punct
12	run	run	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 monument	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 greyhound	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 greyhound	det
15	greyhound	greyhound	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 run	nmod
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 suitable	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 suitable	det
18	_	_	PUNCT	_	19 englyn	punct
19	englyn	englyn	X	Foreign=Yes	25 suitable	nsubj
20	_	_	PUNCT	_	21 quoted	punct
21	quoted	quote	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 englyn	acl
22	by	by	ADP	_	23 Jones	case
23	Jones	Jones	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 quoted	obl
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 suitable	cop
25	suitable	suitable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 monument	parataxis
26	enough	enough	ADV	_	25 suitable	advmod
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 this	case
28	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 suitable	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 inadequate	punct
30	while	while	SCONJ	_	32 inadequate	mark
31	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	32 inadequate	det:predet
32	inadequate	inadequate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 suitable	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 record	mark
34	record	record	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 inadequate	csubj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 exploits	det
36	later	late	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	38 exploits	amod
37	legendary	legendary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 exploits	amod
38	exploits	exploit	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 record	obj
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 Gelert	case
40	Gelert	Gelert	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 exploits	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 monument	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the cairn	a monument	of a record run of a greyhound; thus property	tree rules
2	quote speech: other	participle			by Jones	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	englyn		for this; enough, suitable property	tree rules
4	be		englyn not said here			tree rules
5	record	to-infinitive		the later legendary exploits of Gelert		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent exploit=Theme
6	run			a greyhound		nom run «act transitive»: of=patient

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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