Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 66
Take, for instance, the calm assumption of polygamy in "Gold Tree and Silver Tree."
Who acts: you · What happens: take, assume · To what, where: instance, polygamy, Gold Tree
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 (you), 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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 instance | punct |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 instance | case |
| 4 | instance | instance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 assumption | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 assumption | det |
| 7 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 assumption | amod |
| 8 | assumption | assumption | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 instance | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 polygamy | case |
| 10 | polygamy | polygamy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 assumption | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 Tree | case |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Tree | punct |
| 13 | Gold | Gold | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Tree | compound |
| 14 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 assumption | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 Tree | cc |
| 16 | Silver | Silver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Tree | compound |
| 17 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Tree | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | instance | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instance=Theme | ||||
| 2 | assume | polygamy | Gold Tree and Silver Tree | nom assumption «communication transitive»: of=patient in=place |
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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