Celtic Fairy Tales, XXIV. Battle of Birds., sentence 12

Mr. Nutt found the feather-thatch incident in the _Agallamh na Senoraib_ ("Discourse of Elders"), which is at least as old as the fifteenth century.

Who acts: Mr., Discourse · What happens: find, be, discourse · To what, where: thatch incident, Elders

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: who acts (Mr., Discourse), 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	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 found	nsubj
2	Nutt	Nutt	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mr.	flat
3	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 incident	det
5	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thatch	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 feather	punct
7	thatch	thatch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 incident	compound
8	incident	incident	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 found	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	13 na	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 na	det
11	_	_	PUNCT	_	13 na	punct
12	Agallamh	Agallamh	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 na	compound
13	na	na	ADV	Typo=Yes	3 found	obj
14	Senoraib	Senoraib	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 na	flat
15	_	_	PUNCT	_	3 found	punct
16	(	(	PUNCT	_	18 Discourse	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 Discourse	punct
18	Discourse	discourse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 found	parataxis
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 Elders	case
20	Elders	elder	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 Discourse	nmod
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 Discourse	punct
22	)	)	PUNCT	_	18 Discourse	punct
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 old	punct
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 old	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 old	cop
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 least	case
27	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	28 as	obl
28	as	as	ADV	_	29 old	advmod
29	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Discourse	amod
30	as	as	ADP	_	33 century	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 century	det
32	fifteenth	fifteenth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 century	amod
33	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 old	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	Mr.	the thatch incident			tree rules
2	is	present	Discourse of Elders		century	old property	tree rules
3	discourse in a quote			Elders			nom discourse «communication 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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