Celtic Fairy Tales, V. Conal Yellowclaw., sentence 27

_ xii.) the address of the giant to the buck is as effective as that of Polyphemus to his ram.

Who acts: xii · What happens: be, address · To what, where: giant

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 (xii), 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	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 xii	punct
2	xii	xii	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 effective	nsubj
3	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 xii	punct
4	)	)	PUNCT	_	2 xii	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 address	det
6	address	address	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 effective	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 giant	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 giant	det
9	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 address	nmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 buck	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 buck	det
12	buck	buck	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 giant	nmod
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 effective	cop
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 effective	advmod
15	effective	effective	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
16	as	as	ADP	_	17 that	case
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 effective	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 Polyphemus	case
19	Polyphemus	Polyphemus	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 that	nmod
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 ram	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 ram	nmod:poss
22	ram	ram	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 effective	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 effective	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	xii					as that; to giant's ram; effective property	tree rules
2	address			the giant to the buck					nom address «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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