Celtic Fairy Tales, _to Alfred Nutt_, sentence 23
They translated; I endeavoured to transfer.
Who acts: translators, I · What happens: translate, endeavour, transfer
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, _to Alfred Nutt_. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (translators, I), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 translated | nsubj |
| 2 | translated | translate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 endeavoured | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 endeavoured | nsubj |
| 5 | endeavoured | endeavour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 translated | conj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 transfer | mark |
| 7 | transfer | transfer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 endeavoured | xcomp |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 translated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | translate | past | translators = translator | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | endeavour | past | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | transfer | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=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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