Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 120
Nevertheless, I will be your guide to the place where there is an animal which was formed before I was."
Who acts: I, animal · What happens: be, form · To what, where: guide, animal
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, animal), 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 | _ | 7 guide | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nevertheless | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 guide | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 guide | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 guide | cop |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 guide | nmod:poss |
| 7 | guide | guide | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 place | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 place | det |
| 10 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 guide | nmod |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 is | advmod |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 is | expl |
| 13 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 place | acl:relcl |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 animal | det |
| 15 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 is | nsubj |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 formed | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 formed | aux:pass |
| 18 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 animal | acl:relcl |
| 19 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 21 was | mark |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 was | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 formed | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 guide | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 guide | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | future | I | your guide | to the place; nevertheless property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | present | a animal | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | form | past · passive | a animal | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | be | past | I | 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: «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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