Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 78
The place was thus named after the abbey, not after the cairn or rock.
What happens: name · To what, where: place
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: 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 place | det |
| 2 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 named | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 named | aux:pass |
| 4 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 5 named | advmod |
| 5 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 abbey | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 abbey | det |
| 8 | abbey | abbey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 named | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cairn | punct |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 cairn | advmod |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 cairn | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cairn | det |
| 13 | cairn | cairn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 abbey | appos |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 rock | cc |
| 15 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cairn | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 named | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | past · passive | the place | after the abbey | thus property | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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