Celtic Fairy Tales, V. Conal Yellowclaw., sentence 28

The narrator, James Wilson, was a blind man who would naturally feel the pathos of the address; "it comes from the heart of the narrator;" says Campbell (_l.c.

Who acts: narrator, blind man, Campbell · What happens: be, feel, come, say · To what, where: blind man, pathos, heart · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (narrator, blind man, Campbell), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 narrator	det
2	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 man	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 James	punct
4	James	James	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 narrator	appos
5	Wilson	Wilson	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 James	flat
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 narrator	punct
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 man	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 feel	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 feel	aux
13	naturally	naturally	ADV	_	14 feel	advmod
14	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 man	acl:relcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 pathos	det
16	pathos	patho	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 feel	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 address	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 address	det
19	address	address	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pathos	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 comes	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 comes	punct
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 comes	nsubj
23	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 man	parataxis
24	from	from	ADP	_	26 heart	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 heart	det
26	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 comes	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 narrator	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 narrator	det
29	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 heart	nmod
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 says	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 says	punct
32	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 comes	conj
33	Campbell	Campbell	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 says	nsubj
34	(	(	PUNCT	_	36 l.c	punct
35	_	_	PUNCT	_	36 l.c	punct
36	l.c	l.c	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 Campbell	appos
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the narrator	a blind man			tree rules
2	feel	would	a blind man	the pathos of the address		naturally property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patho=Theme
3	come in a quote	present	narrator		the heart of the narrator		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from heart=Initial_Location
4	say speech: assert	present	Campbell				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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