Celtic Fairy Tales, _to Alfred Nutt_, sentence 33
Among these, I would call attention to the study of the legend of Beth Gellert, the origin of which, I believe, I have settled.
Who acts: I · What happens: call, believe, settle, study · To what, where: attention, study, legend · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | Among | among | ADP | _ | 2 these | case |
| 2 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 call | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 these | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 call | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 call | aux |
| 6 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 call | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 study | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 study | det |
| 10 | study | study | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 call | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 legend | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 legend | det |
| 13 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 study | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Beth | case |
| 15 | Beth | Beth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 legend | nmod |
| 16 | Gellert | Gellert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Beth | flat |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 origin | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 origin | det |
| 19 | origin | origin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Beth | appos |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 which | case |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 origin | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 believe | punct |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 believe | nsubj |
| 24 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 call | parataxis |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 believe | punct |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 settled | nsubj |
| 27 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 settled | aux |
| 28 | settled | settle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 believe | ccomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | would | I | attention | the study of the legend of Beth | among these | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent attention=Topic to study=Recipient | ||
| 2 | believe | present | I | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | settle | present · perfect | I | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | study | the legend of Beth | nom study «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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