Celtic Fairy Tales, XVI. the Story-teller At Fault., sentence 14
This is practically the suggestion of a wise Mohammedan, who is quoted by Yule as saying, "_Wallah!
Who acts: This, Yule · What happens: be, quote, say · To what, where: suggestion, Wallah · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVI. the Story-teller At Fault.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, Yule), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 suggestion | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 suggestion | cop |
| 3 | practically | practically | ADV | _ | 5 suggestion | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 suggestion | det |
| 5 | suggestion | suggestion | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Mohammedan | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Mohammedan | det |
| 8 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Mohammedan | amod |
| 9 | Mohammedan | Mohammedan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 suggestion | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 quoted | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 quoted | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 quoted | aux:pass |
| 13 | quoted | quote | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 suggestion | conj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 Yule | case |
| 15 | Yule | yule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 quoted | obl |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 saying | mark |
| 17 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 quoted | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Wallah | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 Wallah | punct |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 21 Wallah | punct |
| 21 | Wallah | Wallah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 saying | obj |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 suggestion | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | the suggestion | of a wise Mohammedan; practically property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | quote speech: other | present · passive | Yule | the suggestion | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | Yule not said here | Wallah | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wallah=Topic |
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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