More English Fairy Tales, LV. Lawkamercyme, sentence 4
_--It is possible that this is an Eastern "sell": it occurs at any rate as the first episode in Fitzgerald's translation of Jami's _Salámán and Absál_.
Who acts: Source, this, _ · What happens: be, occur, translate · To what, where: Eastern sell, rate
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LV. Lawkamercyme. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Source, this, _), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 possible | punct |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 5 possible | punct |
| 3 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 possible | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 possible | cop |
| 5 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 sell | mark |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 sell | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 sell | cop |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 sell | det |
| 10 | Eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sell | amod |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 sell | punct |
| 12 | sell | sell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 possible | obl |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 sell | punct |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 occurs | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 occurs | nsubj |
| 16 | occurs | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 possible | parataxis |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 rate | case |
| 18 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 rate | det |
| 19 | rate | rate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 occurs | obl |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 episode | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 episode | det |
| 22 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 23 episode | amod |
| 23 | episode | episode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 occurs | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 translation | case |
| 25 | Fitzgerald | Fitzgerald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 translation | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 Fitzgerald | case |
| 27 | translation | translation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 episode | nmod |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 _ | case |
| 29 | Jami | Jami | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 _ | nmod:poss |
| 30 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 29 Jami | case |
| 31 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 translation | nmod |
| 32 | Salámán | Salámán | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 _ | flat |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 Absál | cc |
| 34 | Absál | Absál | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 _ | conj |
| 35 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 occurs | punct |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 possible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Source | possible property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | this | a Eastern sell | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | occur | present | Source | any rate | as the first episode in Fitzgerald's translation of Jami's _ and Absál | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at rate=Location | |||
| 4 | translate | Jami's _ and Absál | nom translation «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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