More English Fairy Tales, LXVII. a Son of Adam, sentence 9
_--The _Exempla_ were anecdotes, witty and otherwise, used by the monks in their sermons to season their discourse.
Who acts: sermons · What happens: be, use, discourse · To what, where: anecdotes
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXVII. a Son of Adam. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sermons), 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 | _ | 10 witty | punct |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 witty | punct |
| 3 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 witty | det |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 witty | punct |
| 5 | Exempla | Exempla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 witty | nsubj |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 anecdotes | punct |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 anecdotes | cop |
| 8 | anecdotes | anecdote | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 Exempla | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 witty | punct |
| 10 | witty | witty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 otherwise | cc |
| 12 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 10 witty | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 used | punct |
| 14 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 witty | conj |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 monks | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 monks | det |
| 17 | monks | monk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 used | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 sermons | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 sermons | nmod:poss |
| 20 | sermons | sermon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 monks | nmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 season | mark |
| 22 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sermons | nmod |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 discourse | nmod:poss |
| 24 | discourse | discourse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 season | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 witty | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | anecdotes | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | use | participle | by the monks in monks's sermons season | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | discourse | sermons = sermon | nom discourse «communication transitive»: poss=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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