Celtic Fairy Tales, XXIV. Battle of Birds., sentence 15
374; and Mr. Lang, in his _Custom and Myth_ ("A far travelled Tale"), has given a number of parallels from savage sources.
Who acts: Lang · What happens: travel, give · To what, where: Tale, Lang
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 (Lang), 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 | 374 | 374 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 Lang | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Lang | cc |
| 4 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Lang | nmod:desc |
| 5 | Lang | Lang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 given | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Custom | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 Custom | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 Custom | nmod:poss |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 Custom | punct |
| 10 | Custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Lang | appos |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Myth | cc |
| 12 | Myth | Myth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Lang | conj |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 Myth | punct |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 travelled | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 travelled | punct |
| 16 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 travelled | det |
| 17 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 travelled | advmod |
| 18 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Lang | acl:relcl |
| 19 | Tale | Tale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 travelled | obj |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Tale | punct |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 travelled | punct |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Lang | punct |
| 23 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 given | aux |
| 24 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 374 | parataxis |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 number | det |
| 26 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 given | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 parallels | case |
| 28 | parallels | parallel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 number | nmod |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 sources | case |
| 30 | savage | savage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sources | compound |
| 31 | sources | source | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 parallels | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 374 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel in a quote | past | Lang Mr. and Myth not said here | Tale | far property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tale=Theme | |||
| 2 | give | present · perfect · passive | Lang Mr. and Myth | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient number=Theme |
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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