Celtic Fairy Tales, XXIV. Battle of Birds., sentence 13
Yet the story is to be found throughout the Indo-European world, as is shown by Prof.
Who acts: Prof · What happens: find, show · To what, where: story
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 (Prof), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 7 found | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 story | det |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 found | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 found | aux:pass |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 found | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 found | aux:pass |
| 7 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 13 world | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 world | det |
| 10 | Indo | Indo | X | _ | 12 European | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Indo | punct |
| 12 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 world | amod |
| 13 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 found | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 shown | punct |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 shown | mark |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 shown | aux:pass |
| 17 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 found | conj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 Prof | case |
| 19 | Prof | Prof | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 shown | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present · passive | the story | throughout the European world | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | show | present · passive | Prof | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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