Celtic Fairy Tales, VI. Hudden and Dudden., sentence 17
Both these writers are inclined to trace the chief incidents to India.
What happens: incline, trace · To what, where: writers, chief incidents, India
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VI. Hudden and Dudden.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Both | both | CCONJ | _ | 5 inclined | cc:preconj |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 writers | det |
| 3 | writers | writer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 inclined | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 inclined | aux:pass |
| 5 | inclined | incline | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 trace | mark |
| 7 | trace | trace | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 inclined | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 incidents | det |
| 9 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 incidents | amod |
| 10 | incidents | incident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 trace | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 India | case |
| 12 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 trace | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 inclined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | incline | present · passive | this writers | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | trace | to-infinitive | the chief incidents | India | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent incident=Theme |
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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