Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 85

There is said to be an ancient air, "Bedd Gelert," "as sung by the Ancient Britons"; it is given in a pamphlet published at Carnarvon in the "fifties," entitled _Gellert's Grave; or, Llewellyn's Rashness: a Ballad, by the Hon.

What happens: say, be, sing, give, publish, entitle · To what, where: ancient air, legend, pamphlet, fifties, Grave · 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: 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 said	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 said	aux:pass
3	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	8 air	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 air	cop
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 air	det
7	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 air	amod
8	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Bedd	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 Bedd	punct
11	Bedd	Bedd	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 air	appos
12	Gelert	Gelert	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Bedd	flat
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 sung	punct
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 sung	mark
17	sung	sing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 said	conj
18	by	by	ADP	_	21 Britons	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Britons	det
20	Ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Britons	amod
21	Britons	Briton	PROPN	Number=Plur	17 sung	obl
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 sung	punct
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 given	punct
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 given	nsubj:pass
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 given	aux:pass
26	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 said	parataxis
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 pamphlet	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 pamphlet	det
29	pamphlet	pamphlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 given	obl
30	published	publish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 pamphlet	acl
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 Carnarvon	case
32	Carnarvon	Carnarvon	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 published	obl:agent
33	in	in	ADP	_	36 fifties	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 fifties	det
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 fifties	punct
36	fifties	fifty	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 published	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 entitled	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	39 entitled	punct
39	entitled	entitle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 given	conj
40	_	_	PUNCT	_	43 Grave	punct
41	Gellert	Gellert	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 Grave	nmod:poss
42	's	's	PART	_	41 Gellert	case
43	Grave	Grave	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 entitled	obj
44	;	;	PUNCT	_	49 Rashness	punct
45	or	or	CCONJ	_	49 Rashness	cc
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 or	punct
47	Llewellyn	Llewellyn	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 Rashness	nmod:poss
48	's	's	PART	_	47 Llewellyn	case
49	Rashness	rashness	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 entitled	obl
50	:	:	PUNCT	_	52 Ballad	punct
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 Ballad	det
52	Ballad	Ballad	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 Rashness	appos
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 Hon	punct
54	by	by	ADP	_	56 Hon	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 Hon	det
56	Hon	Hon	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 Ballad	conj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · passive		there		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»
2	is a	to-infinitive	a ancient air			tree rules
3	sing speech: express in a quote	participle			by the Ancient Britons	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by briton=Location
4	give	present · passive	legend	a pamphlet		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	publish	participle	a pamphlet not said here	the fifties		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	entitle	past	Gellert's Grave		Llewellyn's Rashness obl	tree rules

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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