Celtic Fairy Tales, _to Alfred Nutt_, sentence 46
I have only been enabled to do this by the courtesy of those who owned the copyright of these stories.
Who acts: courtesy, I · What happens: enable, do, own, copyright · To what, where: I, this, copyright, stories
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 (courtesy, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7885:46): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
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 | 5 enabled | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 enabled | aux |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 enabled | advmod |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 enabled | aux:pass |
| 5 | enabled | enable | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 do | mark |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 enabled | xcomp |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 do | obj |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 courtesy | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 courtesy | det |
| 11 | courtesy | courtesy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 enabled | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 those | case |
| 13 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 courtesy | nmod |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 owned | nsubj |
| 15 | owned | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 those | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 copyright | det |
| 17 | copyright | copyright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 owned | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 stories | case |
| 19 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 stories | det |
| 20 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 copyright | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 enabled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enable | present · perfect · passive | the courtesy of those | I | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | I not said here | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | own | past | the copyright of this stories | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot copyright=Theme | |||||
| 4 | copyright | this stories | nom copyright «communication 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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