More English Fairy Tales, Ætat. XIII, sentence 32

I have discussed this matter elsewhere[1] with all the solemnity its importance deserves, and cannot attempt further to defend my position here.

Who acts: I, importance · What happens: discuss, deserve, not attempt, defend · To what, where: matter, position

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Ætat. XIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, importance), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 discussed	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 discussed	aux
3	discussed	discuss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 matter	det
5	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 discussed	obj
6	elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	_	3 discussed	advmod
7	[	[	PUNCT	_	16 deserves	punct
8	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 deserves	discourse
9	]	]	PUNCT	_	8 1	punct
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 solemnity	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 solemnity	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 solemnity	det
13	solemnity	solemnity	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 deserves	obl
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 importance	nmod:poss
15	importance	importance	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 deserves	nsubj
16	deserves	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 discussed	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 attempt	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 attempt	cc
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 attempt	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 attempt	advmod
21	attempt	attempt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 deserves	conj
22	further	further	ADV	_	21 attempt	advmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 defend	mark
24	defend	defend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 attempt	advcl
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 position	nmod:poss
26	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 defend	obj
27	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 defend	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 discussed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	discuss speech: other	present · perfect	I	this matter		elsewhere property	vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent matter=Topic
2	deserve	present	solemnity's importance			with all solemnity	tree rules
3	not attempt	can	solemnity's importance not said here			further property	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	defend	to-infinitive	solemnity's importance not said here	my position	here		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent position=Beneficiary

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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