Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 114

Nevertheless, there is a race of animals who were formed before me, and I will be your guide to them."

Who acts: I, animals · What happens: form, be, race · To what, where: animals, guide

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Wooing of Olwen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, animals), 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	Nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	_	4 is	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nevertheless	punct
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 is	expl
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 guide	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 race	det
6	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 is	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 animals	case
8	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 race	nmod
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 formed	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 formed	aux:pass
11	formed	form	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 animals	acl:relcl
12	before	before	ADP	_	13 me	case
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 formed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 guide	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 guide	cc
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 guide	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 guide	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 guide	cop
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 guide	nmod:poss
20	guide	guide	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 guide	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 guide	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 guide	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	form	past · passive		animals		before me	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	is a	present	I	your guide	animals = animal		tree rules
3	race		animals				nom race «event 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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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