Celtic Fairy Tales, II. Guleesh., sentence 4
I have omitted a journey to Rome, paralleled, as Mr. Nutt has pointed out, by the similar one of Michael Scott (_Waifs and Strays_, i. 46), and not bearing on the main lines of the story.
Who acts: I, Nutt · What happens: omit, point out, not bear · To what, where: journey, Rome, main lines
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, II. Guleesh.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Nutt), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 omitted | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 omitted | aux |
| 3 | omitted | omit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 journey | det |
| 5 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 omitted | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Rome | case |
| 7 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 omitted | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 paralleled | punct |
| 9 | paralleled | paralleled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Rome | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pointed | punct |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 pointed | mark |
| 12 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Nutt | nmod:desc |
| 13 | Nutt | Nutt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 pointed | nsubj |
| 14 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 pointed | aux |
| 15 | pointed | point | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 omitted | parataxis |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 pointed | compound:prt |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 one | punct |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 one | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 one | det |
| 20 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 one | amod |
| 21 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pointed | parataxis |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Michael | case |
| 23 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 one | nmod |
| 24 | Scott | Scott | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Michael | flat |
| 25 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 27 Waifs | punct |
| 26 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 27 Waifs | punct |
| 27 | Waifs | waif | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 Michael | appos |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 Strays | cc |
| 29 | Strays | stray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 Waifs | conj |
| 30 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 27 Waifs | punct |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 46 | punct |
| 32 | i. | i. | X | Foreign=Yes | 33 46 | nsubj |
| 33 | 46 | 46 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 one | appos |
| 34 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 33 46 | punct |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 bearing | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 bearing | cc |
| 37 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 38 bearing | advmod |
| 38 | bearing | bear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 omitted | conj |
| 39 | on | on | ADP | _ | 42 lines | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 lines | det |
| 41 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 lines | amod |
| 42 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 bearing | obl |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 story | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 story | det |
| 45 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 lines | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 omitted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | omit | present · perfect | I | a journey | Rome | vn exclude-107.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Theme | |||
| 2 | point out | present · perfect | Nutt Mr. | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not bear | gerund | I not said here | the main lines of the story | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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