Celtic Fairy Tales, VI. Hudden and Dudden., sentence 27

Who borrowed from whom is another and more difficult question which has to be judged on its merits in each individual case.

Who acts: difficult question · What happens: borrow, be, have, judge · To what, where: difficult question, merits

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: who acts (difficult question), 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 borrowed	nsubj
2	borrowed	borrow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 whom	case
4	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 question	obl
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 question	cop
6	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	10 question	det
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 question	cc
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 difficult	advmod
9	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 question	amod
10	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 borrowed	obj
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 has	nsubj
12	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 question	acl:relcl
13	to	to	PART	_	15 judged	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 judged	aux:pass
15	judged	judge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 has	xcomp
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 merits	case
17	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 merits	nmod:poss
18	merits	merit	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 judged	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 case	case
20	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	22 case	det
21	individual	individual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 case	amod
22	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 merits	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 borrowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	borrow	past				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present		another difficult question		tree rules
3	have	present	another difficult question			tree rules
4	judge	to-infinitive · passive	another difficult question not said here		question's merits in each individual case	vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»

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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