Celtic Fairy Tales, _to Alfred Nutt_, sentence 25
I trust I shall be forgiven by Celtic scholars for the changes I have had to make to effect this end.
Who acts: I, Celtic scholars · What happens: trust, forgive, have, make · To what, where: I, changes, effect
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 (I, Celtic scholars), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 trust | nsubj |
| 2 | trust | trust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 forgiven | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 forgiven | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 forgiven | aux:pass |
| 6 | forgiven | forgive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 trust | ccomp |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 scholars | case |
| 8 | Celtic | celtic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 scholars | amod |
| 9 | scholars | scholar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 forgiven | obl:agent |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 changes | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 changes | det |
| 12 | changes | change | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 forgiven | obl |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 had | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 had | aux |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 changes | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 make | mark |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 had | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 effect | mark |
| 19 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 make | xcomp |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 end | det |
| 21 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 make | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 trust | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trust | present | I | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | forgive | shall · passive | Celtic scholars | I | for the changes | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent subject=Theme for change=Attribute | |||
| 3 | have | present · perfect | I | the changes not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent change=Patient | ||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | I not said here | effect | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset end=Product |
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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