Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 21
Larminie and D. Fitzgerald are known to have much story material in their possession.
Who acts: Larminie · What happens: know, have, possess · To what, where: Larminie, much story material, possession
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Notes and References. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Larminie), 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 | Larminie | Larminie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 known | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 D. | cc |
| 3 | D. | D. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Larminie | conj |
| 4 | Fitzgerald | Fitzgerald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 D. | flat |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 known | aux:pass |
| 6 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 have | mark |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 known | xcomp |
| 9 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 material | amod |
| 10 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 material | compound |
| 11 | material | material | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 possession | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 possession | nmod:poss |
| 14 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present · passive | Larminie and D. | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | to-infinitive | much story material | Larminie's possession | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent material=Patient | ||||
| 3 | possess | Larminie | nom possession «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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