Celtic Fairy Tales, V. Conal Yellowclaw., sentence 20
Confining ourselves to "Conal Yellowclaw," it seems not unlikely that the whole story is an importation.
Who acts: it, whole story · What happens: confine, seem, be · To what, where: ourselves, importation
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, V. Conal Yellowclaw.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, whole story), 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 | Confining | confine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 seems | csubj |
| 2 | ourselves | ourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 1 Confining | obj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 Conal | mark |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Conal | punct |
| 5 | Conal | Conal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Confining | xcomp |
| 6 | Yellowclaw | Yellowclaw | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Conal | flat |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Confining | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 seems | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 seems | nsubj |
| 10 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 unlikely | advmod |
| 12 | unlikely | unlikely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 seems | xcomp |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 importation | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 story | det |
| 15 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 story | amod |
| 16 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 importation | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 importation | cop |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 importation | det |
| 19 | importation | importation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 unlikely | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | confine | gerund | ourselves | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ourselves=Theme | |||||
| 2 | seem | present | it | unlikely property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the whole story | a importation | tree rules |
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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