Celtic Fairy Tales, VII. Shepherd of Myddvai., sentence 3

As this is the first of the Welsh tales in this book it may be as well to give the reader such guidance as I can afford him on the intricacies of Welsh pronunciation, especially with regard to the mysterious _w_'s and _y_'s of Welsh orthography.

Who acts: this, book, I · What happens: be, give, afford · To what, where: reader such guidance, legend, intricacies

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VII. Shepherd of Myddvai.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, book, I), 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	As	as	ADP	_	5 first	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 first	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 first	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 first	det
5	first	first	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 tales	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tales	det
8	Welsh	welsh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tales	amod
9	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 first	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 book	case
11	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 book	det
12	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tales	nmod
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 well	nsubj
14	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 well	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 well	cop
16	as	as	ADV	_	17 well	advmod
17	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 book	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 give	mark
19	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 well	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 guidance	det
21	reader	reader	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 guidance	compound
22	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 guidance	amod
23	guidance	guidance	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 give	obj
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 afford	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 afford	nsubj
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 afford	aux
27	afford	afford	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 guidance	acl
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 afford	obj
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 intricacies	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 intricacies	det
31	intricacies	intricacy	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 afford	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 pronunciation	case
33	Welsh	welsh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 pronunciation	amod
34	pronunciation	pronunciation	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 intricacies	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 regard	punct
36	especially	especially	ADV	_	38 regard	advmod
37	with	with	ADP	_	38 regard	case
38	regard	regard	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 afford	conj
39	to	to	ADP	_	42 _	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 _	det
41	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 _	amod
42	_	_	X	_	43 w	compound
43	w	w	X	ExtPos=PROPN	38 regard	appos
44	_	_	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 w	goeswith
45	's	's	PART	_	44 _	case
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 w	cc
47	_	_	PUNCT	_	43 w	punct
48	y	y	X	_	43 w	flat
49	_	_	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 orthography	nmod:poss
50	's	's	PART	_	49 _	case
51	of	of	ADP	_	53 orthography	case
52	Welsh	welsh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 orthography	amod
53	orthography	orthography	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 w	flat
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 first	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	this			as the first; of the Welsh tales in this book	tree rules
2	is	may	book			well property	tree rules
3	give	to-infinitive	book not said here	the reader such guidance			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guidance=Theme
4	afford	can	I	legend	the intricacies of Welsh pronunciation		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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