Celtic Fairy Tales, _to Alfred Nutt_, sentence 42
I could have more than filled this volume with similar oral traditions about Finn (the Fingal of Macpherson's "Ossian").
Who acts: I · What happens: have, fill · To what, where: more
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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | aux |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 have | obj |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 volume | case |
| 6 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 volume | amod |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 volume | det |
| 8 | volume | volume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 more | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 traditions | case |
| 10 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 traditions | amod |
| 11 | oral | oral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 traditions | amod |
| 12 | traditions | tradition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 volume | nmod |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 14 Finn | case |
| 14 | Finn | Finn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 traditions | nmod |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 Fingal | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Fingal | det |
| 17 | Fingal | Fingal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Finn | appos |
| 18 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 22 Ossian | mark |
| 19 | Macpherson | Macpherson | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Ossian | nsubj |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 Macpherson | case |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 Ossian | punct |
| 22 | Ossian | ossian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Fingal | acl |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Fingal | punct |
| 24 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 17 Fingal | punct |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | could | I | more | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fill | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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