Celtic Fairy Tales, XI. Gold Tree and Silver Tree., sentence 12

On the "survival" method of investigation this would possibly be used as evidence for polygamy in the Highlands.

What happens: use · To what, where: this, survival method

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XI. Gold Tree and Silver Tree.. 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	On	on	ADP	_	6 method	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 method	det
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 survival	punct
4	survival	survival	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 method	compound
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 survival	punct
6	method	method	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 used	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 investigation	case
8	investigation	investigation	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 method	nmod
9	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 used	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 used	aux
11	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	13 used	advmod
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 used	aux:pass
13	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	as	as	ADP	_	15 evidence	case
15	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 used	obl
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 polygamy	case
17	polygamy	polygamy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 evidence	nmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 Highlands	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Highlands	det
20	Highlands	Highland	PROPN	Number=Plur	17 polygamy	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	would · passive		this		the survival method of investigation		as evidence for polygamy in the Highlands; possibly property	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Duration as evidence=Attribute

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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