Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 4
As will be seen, this superiority of the Celts is due to the phenomenal and patriotic activity of one man, the late J. F.
Who acts: superiority · What happens: see, be
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 (superiority), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 seen | mark |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 seen | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 seen | aux:pass |
| 4 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 activity | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 seen | punct |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 superiority | det |
| 7 | superiority | superiority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 activity | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Celts | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Celts | det |
| 10 | Celts | Celt | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 superiority | nmod |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 activity | cop |
| 12 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 18 activity | case |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 due | fixed |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 activity | det |
| 15 | phenomenal | phenomenal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 activity | amod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 patriotic | cc |
| 17 | patriotic | patriotic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 phenomenal | conj |
| 18 | activity | activity | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 man | case |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 man | nummod |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 activity | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 F | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 F | det |
| 24 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 F | amod |
| 25 | J. | J. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 F | compound |
| 26 | F | F | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 activity | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 activity | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | future · passive | this superiority of the Celts not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 2 | is | present | this superiority of the Celts | due the phenomenal activity and the late J. F; of one man | tree rules |
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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