Celtic Fairy Tales, IX. Deirdre., sentence 30
I content myself with pointing out the fact that in these latter days of a seemingly prosaic century in these British Isles there has been collected from the lips of the folk a heroic story like this of "Deirdre," full of romantic incidents, told with tender feeling and considerable literary skill.
Who acts: I · What happens: content, point out, collect, tell · To what, where: myself, fact, prosaic century, British Isles, romantic incidents · Speech: someone speaks here
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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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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 content | nsubj |
| 2 | content | content | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 content | obj |
| 4 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 5 pointing | mark |
| 5 | pointing | point | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 content | advcl |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 pointing | compound:prt |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fact | det |
| 8 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pointing | obj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 days | mark |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 days | case |
| 11 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 days | det |
| 12 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 days | amod |
| 13 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pointing | advcl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 century | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 century | det |
| 16 | seemingly | seemingly | ADV | _ | 17 prosaic | advmod |
| 17 | prosaic | prosaic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 century | amod |
| 18 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 days | nmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 Isles | case |
| 20 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 22 Isles | det |
| 21 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Isles | amod |
| 22 | Isles | Isle | PROPN | Number=Plur | 26 collected | obl |
| 23 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 26 collected | expl |
| 24 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 collected | aux |
| 25 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 collected | aux:pass |
| 26 | collected | collect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 century | acl:relcl |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 lips | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 lips | det |
| 29 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 collected | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 folk | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 folk | det |
| 32 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 lips | nmod |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 story | det |
| 34 | heroic | heroic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 story | amod |
| 35 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 folk | appos |
| 36 | like | like | ADP | _ | 37 this | case |
| 37 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 story | nmod |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 Deirdre | case |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 Deirdre | punct |
| 40 | Deirdre | Deirdre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 story | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 full | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 43 full | punct |
| 43 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 Deirdre | amod |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 incidents | case |
| 45 | romantic | romantic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 incidents | amod |
| 46 | incidents | incident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 full | obl |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 told | punct |
| 48 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 46 incidents | acl |
| 49 | with | with | ADP | _ | 51 feeling | case |
| 50 | tender | tender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 feeling | compound |
| 51 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 told | obl |
| 52 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 skill | cc |
| 53 | considerable | considerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 55 skill | amod |
| 54 | literary | literary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 55 skill | amod |
| 55 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 feeling | conj |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 content | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | content | present | I | myself | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus myself=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | point out | gerund | I not said here | the fact | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fact=Patient | ||||
| 3 | collect | present · perfect · passive | a prosaic century not said here | this British Isles; there | from the lips of the folk | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: from lip=Source | |||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | participle | romantic incidents not said here | with tender feeling and considerable literary skill | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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