Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 3

And, by-the-way, speaking of the Giant's Causeway brings me at once to the beginning of my story.

What happens: speak, bring, begin · To what, where: me, beginning, story · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, A Legend of Knockmany. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 way	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 way	punct
3	by	by	ADP	_	7 way	case
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 by	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 way	det
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 the	punct
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 brings	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 speaking	punct
9	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 brings	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	14 Causeway	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Causeway	det
12	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Causeway	amod
13	's	's	PART	_	12 Giant	case
14	Causeway	Causeway	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 speaking	obl
15	brings	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 brings	obj
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 once	case
18	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	15 brings	obl
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 beginning	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 beginning	det
21	beginning	beginning	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 brings	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 story	case
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 story	nmod:poss
24	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 beginning	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 brings	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	gerund			of the Giant Causeway	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bring	present	me	to the beginning of my story	by the way	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to beginning=Destination
3	begin		my story			nom beginning «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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