Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 28
Turning to SCOTLAND, we must put aside Chambers' _Popular Rhymes of Scotland_, 1842, which contains for the most part folk-tales common with those of England rather than those peculiar to the Gaelic-speaking Scots.
Who acts: we, Popular Rhymes, Scotland · What happens: turn, put aside, contain, speak, rhyme · To what, where: SCOTLAND, Popular Rhymes · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (we, Popular Rhymes, Scotland), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 put | advcl |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 SCOTLAND | case |
| 3 | SCOTLAND | SCOTLAND | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Turning | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Turning | punct |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 put | nsubj |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 put | aux |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | aside | aside | ADP | _ | 7 put | compound:prt |
| 9 | Chambers | chamber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Rhymes | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 9 Chambers | case |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 Rhymes | punct |
| 12 | Popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Rhymes | amod |
| 13 | Rhymes | rhyme | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 put | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Scotland | case |
| 15 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Rhymes | nmod |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 Rhymes | punct |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 1842 | punct |
| 18 | 1842 | 1842 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 Rhymes | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 contains | punct |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 contains | nsubj |
| 21 | contains | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 Rhymes | parataxis |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 tales | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 tales | det |
| 24 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 tales | amod |
| 25 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 tales | compound |
| 26 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 tales | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 folk | punct |
| 28 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 contains | obl |
| 29 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 tales | amod |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 those | case |
| 31 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 29 common | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 England | case |
| 33 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 those | nmod |
| 34 | rather | rather | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 37 peculiar | cc |
| 35 | than | than | ADP | _ | 34 rather | fixed |
| 36 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 37 peculiar | det |
| 37 | peculiar | peculiar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 those | conj |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 Scots | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 Scots | det |
| 40 | Gaelic | gaelic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 speaking | compound |
| 41 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 Gaelic | punct |
| 42 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 43 Scots | amod |
| 43 | Scots | Scot | PROPN | Number=Plur | 31 those | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | gerund | we not said here | SCOTLAND | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to scotland=Result | ||||
| 2 | put aside | must | we | Chambers's Popular Rhymes of Scotland | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent rhyme=Goal | ||||
| 3 | contain | present | Chambers's Popular Rhymes of Scotland | for the most part folk tales | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | gerund | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | rhyme | Scotland | nom rhyme «communication intransitive»: of=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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