Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 75
In any other country of Europe some national means of recording them would have long ago been adopted.
Who acts: national, tales · What happens: mean, record, have, adopt
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 (national, tales), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 country | case |
| 2 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 country | det |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 country | amod |
| 4 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 means | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Europe | case |
| 6 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 country | nmod |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 national | det |
| 8 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 means | nsubj |
| 9 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 11 recording | mark |
| 11 | recording | record | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 means | advcl |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 have | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 have | aux |
| 14 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 recording | ccomp |
| 15 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 adopted | advmod |
| 16 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 18 adopted | advmod |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 adopted | aux:pass |
| 18 | adopted | adopt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 have | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | some national | in any other country of Europe | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in country=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | record | gerund | some national not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have | would | tales = tale | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | adopt | participle · passive | tales = tale not said here | ago, long property | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP» |
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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