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Sea-maiden., sentence 23 \_, 464) and Mr. Nutt (MacInnes' \_Tales\_, 477) have pointed out, practically the same story (that of Perseus and Andromeda) is told of the Ultonian hero, Cuchulain, in the \_Wooing of Emer\_, a tale which occurs in the Book of Leinster, a MS. of the twelfth century, and was probably copied from one of the eighth. **Who acts:** tale · **What happens:** point out, tell, occur, copy, woo · **To what, where:** Nutt, Book, Emer · **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 (tale), 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:pg7885:51:23 # text = _, 464) and Mr. Nutt (MacInnes' _Tales_, 477) have pointed out, practically the same story (that of Perseus and Andromeda) is told of the Ultonian hero, Cuchulain, in the _Wooing of Emer_, a tale which occurs in the Book of Leinster, a MS. of the twelfth century, and was probably copied from one of the eighth. 1 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 464 464 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 3 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 Mr. Mr. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod:desc _ _ 7 Nutt Nutt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 MacInnes MacInnes PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ' 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 Tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 13 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 477 477 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 15 punct _ _ 17 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 pointed point VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 19 out out ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 practically practically ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 25 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 24 nmod _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 Perseus Perseus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 Andromeda Andromeda PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 28 punct _ _ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux:pass _ _ 33 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 parataxis _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 Ultonian Ultonian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 hero hero NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 39 Cuchulain Cuchulain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 _ _ PUNCT `` _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 Wooing wooing NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 Emer Emer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 49 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 tale tale NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 appos _ _ 51 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 52 nsubj _ _ 52 occurs occur VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 50 acl:relcl _ _ 53 in in ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 54 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 55 Book Book PROPN NNP Number=Sing 52 obl _ _ 56 of of ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 57 Leinster Leinster PROPN NNP Number=Sing 55 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 58 , , PUNCT , _ 60 punct _ _ 59 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 60 det _ _ 60 MS. MS. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 55 conj _ _ 61 of of ADP IN _ 64 case _ _ 62 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 64 det _ _ 63 twelfth twelfth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 64 amod _ _ 64 century century NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 65 , , PUNCT , _ 69 punct _ _ 66 and and CCONJ CC _ 69 cc _ _ 67 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 69 aux:pass _ _ 68 probably probably ADV RB _ 69 advmod _ _ 69 copied copy VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 conj _ _ 70 from from ADP IN _ 71 case _ _ 71 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 69 obl _ _ 72 of of ADP IN _ 74 case _ _ 73 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 74 det _ _ 74 eighth eighth NOUN NN Number=Sing 71 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 75 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **point out** | present · perfect · passive | | Nutt Mr. and MacInnes | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | | | | | of Perseus and Andromeda; of the Ultonian hero | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V» | | 3 | **occur** | present | a tale | | | the Book of Leinster and a MS. of the twelfth century | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in book=Location | | 4 | **copy** | past · passive | | | | | | from one of the eighth; probably *property* | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP» | | 5 | **woo** | | | Emer | | | | | nom wooing «communication transitive»: 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. - ← previous: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/51/22/) - next →: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/51/24/) - ↑ back to [XVII. 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