Celtic Fairy Tales, _to Alfred Nutt_, sentence 56

The fate of the Celt in the British Empire bids fair to resemble that of the Greeks among the Romans. "

Who acts: fate · What happens: bid, resemble, fate · To what, where: Greeks, Celt

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 (fate), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fate	det
2	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bids	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Celt	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Celt	det
5	Celt	Celt	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 fate	nmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 Empire	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Empire	det
8	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Empire	amod
9	Empire	Empire	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Celt	nmod
10	bids	bid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bids	xcomp
12	to	to	PART	_	13 resemble	mark
13	resemble	resemble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 fair	csubj
14	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 Greeks	det
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 Greeks	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Greeks	det
17	Greeks	Greek	PROPN	Number=Plur	13 resemble	obj
18	among	among	ADP	_	20 Romans	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Romans	det
20	Romans	Roman	PROPN	Number=Plur	17 Greeks	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 bids	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 bids	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bid	present	the fate of the Celt in the British Empire		fair property	tree rules
2	resemble	to-infinitive		that Greeks	among the Romans	tree rules
3	fate			the Celt in the British Empire		nom fate «event 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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