More English Fairy Tales, LII. Tom Hickathrift, sentence 19

Mr. Gomme is inclined to believe, I understand him, that there is a certain amount of evidence for Tom Hickathrift being a historic personality round whom some of the Scandinavian mythical exploits have gathered.

Who acts: I, certain amount, Tom · What happens: incline, believe, understand, be, gather, amount · To what, where: Gomme, some, evidence

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 (I, certain amount, Tom), 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	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Gomme	nmod:desc
2	Gomme	Gomme	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 inclined	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 inclined	aux:pass
4	inclined	incline	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 believe	mark
6	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 inclined	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 understand	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 understand	nsubj
9	understand	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 inclined	parataxis
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 understand	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 is	punct
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 is	mark
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 is	expl
14	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 inclined	parataxis
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 amount	det
16	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 amount	amod
17	amount	amount	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 is	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 evidence	case
19	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 amount	nmod
20	for	for	ADP	_	26 personality	case
21	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 personality	nsubj
22	Hickathrift	Hickathrift	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Tom	flat
23	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 personality	cop
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 personality	det
25	historic	historic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 personality	amod
26	personality	personality	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 evidence	nmod
27	round	round	ADP	_	28 whom	case
28	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 personality	nmod
29	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	36 gathered	nsubj:pass
30	of	of	ADP	_	34 exploits	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 exploits	det
32	Scandinavian	scandinavian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 exploits	amod
33	mythical	mythical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 exploits	amod
34	exploits	exploit	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 some	nmod
35	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 gathered	aux
36	gathered	gather	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 whom	acl:relcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 inclined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	incline	present · passive		Gomme Mr.			tree rules
2	believe	to-infinitive					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	understand	present	I	Gomme			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
4	be	present	a certain amount of evidence		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	gerund	Tom			for a historic personality; round evidence	tree rules
6	gather	present · perfect · passive		some			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
7	amount			evidence			nom amount «possession 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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