--- title: The trial of the sword occurs in the saga of Sigurd, yet it is also… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The trial of the sword occurs in the saga of Sigurd, yet it is also frequent in Celtic saga and folk-tales (see Mr. Nutt's note, MacInnes' _Tales_, 473, and add. Who acts: trial, Nutt, MacInnes. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVII. Sea-maiden., with its dependency tree and the --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/51/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Celtic Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/) / [XVII. Sea-maiden.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/51/) / 17 # Celtic Fairy Tales, XVII. Sea-maiden., sentence 17 The trial of the sword occurs in the saga of Sigurd, yet it is also frequent in Celtic saga and folk-tales (see Mr. Nutt's note, MacInnes' \_Tales\_, 473, and add. **Who acts:** trial, Nutt, MacInnes · **What happens:** occur, be, see, add, try, note · **To what, where:** saga, Celtic saga, note, sword · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVII. Sea-maiden.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trial, Nutt, MacInnes), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7885:51:17 # text = The trial of the sword occurs in the saga of Sigurd, yet it is also frequent in Celtic saga and folk-tales (see Mr. Nutt's note, MacInnes' _Tales_, 473, and add. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 trial trial NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 occurs occur VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 saga saga NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 Sigurd Sigurd PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 yet yet CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 16 also also ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 frequent frequent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 parataxis _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 Celtic celtic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 saga saga NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 folk folk NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 25 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 see see VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 27 Mr. Mr. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod:desc _ _ 28 Nutt Nutt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 29 's 's PART POS _ 28 case _ _ 30 note note NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 MacInnes MacInnes PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ' 's PART POS _ 32 case _ _ 34 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 Tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 36 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 473 473 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 30 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 add add VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **occur** | present | the trial of the sword | | | the saga of Sigurd | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in saga=Location | | 2 | **is** | present | trial | | | Celtic saga and folk tales | | frequent *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **see** | infinitive | | Nutt Mr.'s note | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer note=Stimulus | | 4 | **add** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **try** | | | the sword | | | | | nom trial «act transitive»: of=patient | | 6 | **note** | | Nutt Mr. | | | | | | nom note «communication transitive»: poss=agent | | 7 | **tell** | | MacInnes | | | | | | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=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. - ← previous: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/51/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/51/18/) - ↑ back to [XVII. 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