Celtic Fairy Tales, IX. Deirdre., sentence 29
I leave to Celtic specialists the task of settling the exact relations of these various texts.
Who acts: I, task · What happens: leave, settle · To what, where: Celtic specialists, exact relations
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, IX. Deirdre.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, task), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 leave | nsubj |
| 2 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 specialists | case |
| 4 | Celtic | celtic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 specialists | amod |
| 5 | specialists | specialist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 leave | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 task | det |
| 7 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 specialists | conj |
| 8 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 9 settling | mark |
| 9 | settling | settle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 task | acl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 relations | det |
| 11 | exact | exact | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 relations | amod |
| 12 | relations | relation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 settling | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 texts | case |
| 14 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 texts | det |
| 15 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 texts | amod |
| 16 | texts | text | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 relations | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | present | I | Celtic specialists and the task | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to specialist=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | settle | gerund | the task not said here | the exact relations of this various texts | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme relation=Location |
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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