Celtic Fairy Tales, XVIII. Legend of Knockmany., sentence 15

Mr. Nutt informs me that parodies of the Irish sagas occur as early as the sixteenth century, and the present tale may be regarded as a specimen.

Who acts: Mr. Nutt, parodies · What happens: inform, occur, regard, parody · To what, where: me, present tale, Irish sagas

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVIII. Legend of Knockmany.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mr. Nutt, parodies), 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	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Nutt	compound
2	Nutt	nutt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 informs	nsubj
3	informs	inform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 informs	obj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 occur	mark
6	parodies	parody	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 occur	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 sagas	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sagas	det
9	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sagas	amod
10	sagas	saga	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 parodies	nmod
11	occur	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 informs	advcl
12	as	as	ADV	_	13 early	advmod
13	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 occur	advmod
14	as	as	ADP	_	17 century	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 century	det
16	sixteenth	sixteenth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 century	amod
17	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 occur	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 regarded	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 regarded	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 tale	det
21	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 tale	amod
22	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 regarded	nsubj:pass
23	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 regarded	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 regarded	aux:pass
25	regarded	regard	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 informs	conj
26	as	as	ADP	_	28 specimen	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 specimen	det
28	specimen	specimen	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 regarded	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 informs	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	inform speech: other	present	Mr. Nutt		me			vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	occur	present	parodies of the Irish sagas			century	early property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	regard	may · passive		the present tale			as a specimen	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: subject=Theme as specimen=Value
4	parody			the Irish sagas				nom parody «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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