More English Fairy Tales, XLVII. My Own Self, sentence 11

The expedient by which Ulysses outwits Polyphemus in the Odyssey by calling himself [Greek: outis] is clearly of the same order.

Who acts: Ulysses, expedient · What happens: outwit, call, be · To what, where: Polyphemus · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLVII. My Own Self. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ulysses, expedient), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 expedient	det
2	expedient	expedient	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 order	nsubj
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 which	case
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 outwits	obl
5	Ulysses	Ulysses	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 outwits	nsubj
6	outwits	outwit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 expedient	acl:relcl
7	Polyphemus	Polyphemus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 outwits	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 Odyssey	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Odyssey	det
10	Odyssey	Odyssey	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 outwits	obl
11	by	by	SCONJ	_	12 calling	mark
12	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 outwits	advcl
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 calling	obj
14	[	[	PUNCT	_	15 Greek	punct
15	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 calling	xcomp
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 outis	punct
17	outis	outis	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 expedient	appos
18	]	]	PUNCT	_	17 outis	punct
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 order	cop
20	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	24 order	advmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 order	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 order	det
23	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 order	amod
24	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 order	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	outwit	present	Ulysses	Polyphemus	by the expedient; in the Odyssey	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot polyphemus=Theme in odyssey=Attribute
2	call	gerund	Ulysses not said here	Polyphemus	greek property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient
3	is	present	the expedient		of the same order; clearly property	tree rules

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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