Celtic Fairy Tales, XXIV. Battle of Birds., sentence 11
It must have occurred early among them.
What happens: occur · To what, where: variant
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXIV. Battle of Birds.. 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 occurred | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 occurred | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 occurred | aux |
| 4 | occurred | occur | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 occurred | advmod |
| 6 | among | among | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 occurred | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 occurred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occur | must · perfect · passive | variant | among Tales = tale; early property | 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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