Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 84
Before proceeding to the Notes, I may "put in," as the lawyers say, a few summaries of the results reached in them.
Who acts: I, lawyers, few summaries · What happens: proceed, put in, say, reach · 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 (I, lawyers, few summaries), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 2 proceeding | mark |
| 2 | proceeding | proceed | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 put | advcl |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Notes | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Notes | det |
| 5 | Notes | Note | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 proceeding | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 proceeding | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 put | nsubj |
| 8 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 put | aux |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 put | punct |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 put | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 put | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 put | punct |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 say | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 lawyers | det |
| 16 | lawyers | lawyer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 say | nsubj |
| 17 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 reached | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 say | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 summaries | det |
| 20 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 summaries | amod |
| 21 | summaries | summary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 reached | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 results | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 results | det |
| 24 | results | result | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 summaries | nmod |
| 25 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 put | parataxis |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 them | case |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 reached | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | proceed | gerund | I not said here | to the Notes | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | put in in a quote | may | the lawyers = lawyer | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | the lawyers | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | reach | past | a few summaries of the results | in lawyers = lawyer | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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