Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 2
There was at that time a king over every fifth of Erin.
Who acts: king · What happens: be · To what, where: fifth
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Conall Yellowclaw. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | obl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 fifth | case |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 fifth | det |
| 10 | fifth | fifth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Erin | case |
| 12 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 fifth | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a king | every fifth of Erin; there | time | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over fifth=Location |
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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