English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 42
There are even traces in the Old Testament of such screeds of verse amid the prose narrative, as in the story of Lamech or that of Balaam.
Who acts: traces · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Childe Rowland.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (traces), 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 | 2 are | expl |
| 2 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | even | even | ADV | _ | 4 traces | advmod |
| 4 | traces | trace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 are | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Testament | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Testament | det |
| 7 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Testament | amod |
| 8 | Testament | Testament | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 traces | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 screeds | case |
| 10 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 screeds | amod |
| 11 | screeds | screed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 traces | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 amid | case |
| 13 | verse | verse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 amid | compound |
| 14 | amid | amid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 screeds | nmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 narrative | det |
| 16 | prose | prose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 narrative | amod |
| 17 | narrative | narrative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 amid | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 story | punct |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 story | case |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 story | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 story | det |
| 22 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 narrative | appos |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Lamech | case |
| 24 | Lamech | Lamech | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 story | nmod |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 Balaam | cc |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 Balaam | mark |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Balaam | case |
| 28 | Balaam | Balaam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Lamech | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | traces in the Old Testament of such screeds of verse amid and the prose narrative | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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