More English Fairy Tales, LII. Tom Hickathrift, sentence 13
On the other hand, there is evidence of local tradition persisting from that time onward till the present day (Weaver, _Funerall Monuments_, 1631, pp.
Who acts: evidence, local tradition · What happens: be, persist, evidence · To what, where: other hand, local tradition
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LII. Tom Hickathrift. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (evidence, local tradition), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 hand | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hand | det |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hand | amod |
| 4 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 is | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hand | punct |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 is | expl |
| 7 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 is | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 tradition | case |
| 10 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tradition | amod |
| 11 | tradition | tradition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 evidence | nmod |
| 12 | persisting | persist | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 tradition | acl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 time | case |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 time | det |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 persisting | obl |
| 16 | onward | onward | ADV | _ | 12 persisting | advmod |
| 17 | till | till | ADP | _ | 20 day | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 day | det |
| 19 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 day | amod |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 persisting | obl |
| 21 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 22 Weaver | punct |
| 22 | Weaver | Weaver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 day | appos |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Monuments | punct |
| 24 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 26 Monuments | punct |
| 25 | Funerall | funerall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Monuments | amod |
| 26 | Monuments | monument | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 evidence | appos |
| 27 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 26 Monuments | punct |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 1631 | punct |
| 29 | 1631 | 1631 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 evidence | appos |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 pp | punct |
| 31 | pp | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 evidence | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | evidence of local tradition and pp | the other hand; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hand=Location | ||||
| 2 | persist | gerund | local tradition not said here | day; time | onward property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | evidence | local tradition | nom evidence «cognition 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: «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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