Celtic Fairy Tales, VII. Shepherd of Myddvai., sentence 4
For _w_ substitute double _o_, as in "_fool_," and for _y_, the short _u_ in b_u_t, and as near approach to Cymric speech will be reached as is possible for the outlander.
What happens: reach, be
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: 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 w | case |
| 2 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 w | punct |
| 3 | w | w | ADV | Typo=Yes | 49 possible | advmod |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 substitute | punct |
| 5 | substitute | substitute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 w | flat |
| 6 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 substitute | amod |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 _ | punct |
| 8 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 9 _ | case |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 w | punct |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fool | punct |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 fool | case |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 fool | case |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 fool | punct |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 fool | punct |
| 15 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 w | appos |
| 16 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 fool | punct |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 w | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 w | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 y | cc |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 y | case |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 22 y | punct |
| 22 | y | y | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 w | conj |
| 23 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 w | punct |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 w | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 short | det |
| 26 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 w | goeswith |
| 27 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 28 u | punct |
| 28 | u | u | X | _ | 3 w | goeswith |
| 29 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 28 u | punct |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 b | case |
| 31 | b | B | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 w | nmod |
| 32 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 33 u | punct |
| 33 | u | u | X | _ | 3 w | goeswith |
| 34 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 35 t | punct |
| 35 | t | t | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 u | goeswith |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 reached | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 reached | cc |
| 38 | as | as | ADP | _ | 40 approach | case |
| 39 | near | near | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 approach | amod |
| 40 | approach | approach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 reached | obl |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 speech | case |
| 42 | Cymric | Cymric | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 speech | compound |
| 43 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 approach | nmod |
| 44 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 reached | aux |
| 45 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 46 reached | aux:pass |
| 46 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 w | parataxis |
| 47 | as | as | ADP | _ | 46 reached | advmod |
| 48 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 49 possible | cop |
| 49 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 50 | for | for | ADP | _ | 52 outlander | case |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 outlander | det |
| 52 | outlander | outlander | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 possible | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 49 possible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | future · passive | as near approach to Cymric speech | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 2 | is | present | for the outlander; possible property | 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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