Celtic Fairy Tales, _to Alfred Nutt_, sentence 6
Gallant little Wales has no name to rank alongside these; in this department the Cymru have shown less vigour than the Gaedhel.
Who acts: Gallant little Wales, Cymru · What happens: have, rank, show · To what, where: name, less vigour
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 (Gallant little Wales, Cymru), 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 | Gallant | gallant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Wales | amod |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Wales | amod |
| 3 | Wales | Wales | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 name | det |
| 6 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 rank | mark |
| 8 | rank | rank | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 name | acl |
| 9 | alongside | alongside | ADP | _ | 10 these | case |
| 10 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 rank | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 shown | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 department | case |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 department | det |
| 14 | department | department | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shown | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Cymru | det |
| 16 | Cymru | Cymru | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 shown | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 shown | aux |
| 18 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 has | conj |
| 19 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 vigour | amod |
| 20 | vigour | vigour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shown | obj |
| 21 | than | than | ADP | _ | 23 Gaedhel | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Gaedhel | det |
| 23 | Gaedhel | Gaedhel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 vigour | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Gallant little Wales | no name | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient | ||||
| 2 | rank | to-infinitive | Gallant little Wales not said here | no name not said here | alongside these | vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | show | present · perfect | the Cymru | less vigour | than the Gaedhel; in this department | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent vigour=Patient in department=Topic |
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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