Celtic Fairy Tales, XXII. Story of Ivan., sentence 8
Curiously enough, it forms the chief episode of the so-called "Irish Odyssey" ("_Merugud Uilix maiec Leirtis_"--"Wandering of Ulysses M'Laertes").
Who acts: story · What happens: form, call, wander · To what, where: chief episode, Ulysses M'Laertes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXII. Story of Ivan.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story), 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 | Curiously | curiously | ADV | _ | 5 forms | advmod |
| 2 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 1 Curiously | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Curiously | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 forms | nsubj |
| 5 | forms | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 episode | det |
| 7 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 episode | amod |
| 8 | episode | episode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 forms | obj |
| 9 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 13 called | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 called | det |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 called | advmod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 so | punct |
| 13 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 episode | acl |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Odyssey | punct |
| 15 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Odyssey | amod |
| 16 | Odyssey | Odyssey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 called | xcomp |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Odyssey | punct |
| 18 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 23 maiec | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 maiec | punct |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 23 maiec | punct |
| 21 | Merugud | Merugud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 maiec | compound |
| 22 | Uilix | Uilix | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Merugud | flat |
| 23 | maiec | maiec | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Odyssey | appos |
| 24 | Leirtis | Leirtis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 maiec | appos |
| 25 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 24 Leirtis | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 maiec | punct |
| 27 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 29 Wandering | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 Wandering | punct |
| 29 | Wandering | wandering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Odyssey | appos |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 M'Laertes | case |
| 31 | Ulysses | Ulysses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 M'Laertes | compound |
| 32 | M'Laertes | M'Laertes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Wandering | nmod |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 M'Laertes | punct |
| 34 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 32 M'Laertes | punct |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 forms | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | form | present | story | the chief episode | curiously property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location episode=Theme | |||
| 2 | call | participle | the chief episode not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | wander in a quote | Ulysses M'Laertes | nom wandering «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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