Celtic Fairy Tales, XIII. the Wooing of Olwen., sentence 36
It scarcely follows that Mr. Abraham is in receipt of divine honours nowadays.
Who acts: Eisteddfod, Abraham · What happens: follow, be · To what, where: receipt
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIII. the Wooing of Olwen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eisteddfod, Abraham), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 follows | nsubj |
| 2 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 3 follows | advmod |
| 3 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 receipt | mark |
| 5 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Abraham | nmod:desc |
| 6 | Abraham | Abraham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 receipt | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 receipt | cop |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 receipt | case |
| 9 | receipt | receipt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 follows | advcl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 honours | case |
| 11 | divine | divine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 honours | amod |
| 12 | honours | honour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 receipt | nmod |
| 13 | nowadays | nowadays | ADV | _ | 12 honours | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 follows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | present | Eisteddfod | scarcely property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Abraham Mr. | receipt | of divine honours | 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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