Celtic Fairy Tales, XXIV. Battle of Birds., sentence 17

_Remarks_.--Mr. Nutt, in his discussion of the tale (MacInnes, _Tales_ 441), makes the interesting suggestion that the obstacles to pursuit, the forest, the mountain, and the river, exactly represent the boundary of the old Teutonic Hades, so that the story was originally one of the Descent to Hell.

Who acts: Remarks, obstacles, story, Mr. · What happens: make, forest, represent, be, discuss · To what, where: interesting suggestion, boundary, one, tale

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 (Remarks, obstacles, story, Mr.), 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	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 Remarks	punct
2	Remarks	remark	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 makes	nsubj
3	_	_	PUNCT	_	6 Nutt	punct
4	.--	.--	PUNCT	_	6 Nutt	punct
5	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Nutt	nmod:desc
6	Nutt	Nutt	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Remarks	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 discussion	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 discussion	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 discussion	nmod:poss
10	discussion	discussion	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Nutt	appos
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 tale	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tale	det
13	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 discussion	nmod
14	(	(	PUNCT	_	15 MacInnes	punct
15	MacInnes	MacInnes	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 tale	appos
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Tales	punct
17	_	_	PUNCT	_	18 Tales	punct
18	Tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 Nutt	conj
19	_	_	PUNCT	_	20 441	punct
20	441	441	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 Tales	appos
21	)	)	PUNCT	_	20 441	punct
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Remarks	punct
23	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 suggestion	det
25	interesting	interesting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 suggestion	amod
26	suggestion	suggestion	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 makes	obj
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 forest	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 obstacles	det
29	obstacles	obstacle	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 forest	nsubj
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 pursuit	case
31	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 obstacles	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 forest	punct
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 forest	det
34	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 suggestion	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 mountain	punct
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 mountain	det
37	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 forest	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 river	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 river	cc
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 river	det
41	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 makes	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 represent	punct
43	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	44 represent	advmod
44	represent	represent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 makes	conj
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 boundary	det
46	boundary	boundary	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 represent	obj
47	of	of	ADP	_	51 Hades	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 Hades	det
49	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 Hades	amod
50	Teutonic	Teutonic	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 Hades	compound
51	Hades	Hade	PROPN	Number=Plur	46 boundary	nmod
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 one	punct
53	so	so	ADV	_	59 one	advmod
54	that	that	SCONJ	_	59 one	mark
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 story	det
56	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 one	nsubj
57	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 one	cop
58	originally	originally	ADV	_	59 one	advmod
59	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	44 represent	obl
60	of	of	ADP	_	62 Descent	case
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 Descent	det
62	Descent	descent	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 one	nmod
63	to	to	ADP	_	64 Hell	case
64	Hell	Hell	PROPN	Number=Sing	62 Descent	nmod
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 makes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	present	Remarks Nutt Mr. and Tales	the interesting suggestion	the river obl	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset suggestion=Product
2	forest		the obstacles to pursuit			tree rules
3	represent	present	Remarks Nutt Mr. and Tales not said here	the boundary of the old Teutonic Hades	exactly property	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot boundary=Theme
4	is a	past	the story	one	of the Descent to Hell; originally property	tree rules
5	discuss		Mr.	the tale		nom discussion «communication transitive»: poss=agent 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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