Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 44
WALES makes a poor show beside Ireland and Scotland.
Who acts: WALES · What happens: make · To what, where: poor show, Ireland
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 (WALES), 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 | WALES | wale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 show | det |
| 4 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 show | amod |
| 5 | show | show | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | obj |
| 6 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 7 Ireland | case |
| 7 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 show | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Scotland | cc |
| 9 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Ireland | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | WALES | a poor show | Ireland and Scotland | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset show=Product |
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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