More English Fairy Tales, LVII. the Wee Bannock, sentence 4
There still remain several technical trade terms requiring elucidation.
Who acts: several technical trade terms · What happens: remain, require · To what, where: several technical trade terms, elucidation
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LVII. the Wee Bannock. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (several technical trade terms), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 remain | expl |
| 2 | still | still | ADV | _ | 3 remain | advmod |
| 3 | remain | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 terms | amod |
| 5 | technical | technical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 terms | amod |
| 6 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 terms | compound |
| 7 | terms | term | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 remain | obj |
| 8 | requiring | require | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 terms | acl |
| 9 | elucidation | elucidation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 requiring | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 remain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | present | several technical trade terms | there | still | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme term=Attribute | |||
| 2 | require | gerund | several technical trade terms not said here | elucidation | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme elucidation=Precondition |
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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