Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 7

The Greyhound named Gelert was given him by his father-in-law, King John, in the year 1205, and the place to this day is called Beth-Gelert, or the grave of Gelert."

Who acts: law · What happens: name, give, call · To what, where: Greyhound, Gelert, 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 (law), 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 Greyhound	det
2	Greyhound	greyhound	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 given	nsubj:pass
3	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Greyhound	acl
4	Gelert	Gelert	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 named	xcomp
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 given	aux:pass
6	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 given	iobj
8	by	by	ADP	_	14 law	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 law	nmod:poss
10	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 law	nsubj
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 law	punct
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 law	case
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 in	punct
14	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 given	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 John	punct
16	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 John	nmod:desc
17	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 law	appos
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 year	punct
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 year	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 year	det
21	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 given	parataxis
22	1205	1205	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 year	flat
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 called	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 called	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 place	det
26	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 called	nsubj:pass
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 day	case
28	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 day	det
29	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 place	nmod
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 called	aux:pass
31	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 given	parataxis
32	Beth	Beth	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 called	xcomp
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 Gelert	punct
34	Gelert	Gelert	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Beth	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 grave	punct
36	or	or	CCONJ	_	38 grave	cc
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 grave	det
38	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 given	parataxis
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 Gelert	case
40	Gelert	Gelert	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 grave	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 given	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 given	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	name	participle		the Greyhound not said here		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	give	past · passive	Greyhound's law	the Greyhound	Gelert	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient he=Theme
3	call	present · passive		the place to this day		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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