Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 12
Borrow in his _Wild Wales_, p. 146, gives the legend, but does not profess to derive it from local tradition.
Who acts: you · What happens: borrow, give, not profess, derive · To what, where: _ Wild Wales, legend, local tradition
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Beth Gellert.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Borrow | borrow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Wales | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 Wales | nmod:poss |
| 4 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Wales | compound |
| 5 | Wild | Wild | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Wales | compound |
| 6 | Wales | Wales | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Borrow | obl |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 Wales | punct |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 p. | punct |
| 9 | p. | P. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Wales | conj |
| 10 | 146 | 146 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 p. | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gives | punct |
| 12 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Borrow | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 legend | det |
| 14 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gives | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 profess | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 profess | cc |
| 17 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 profess | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 profess | advmod |
| 19 | profess | profess | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Borrow | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 derive | mark |
| 21 | derive | derive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 profess | xcomp |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 derive | obj |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 tradition | case |
| 24 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 tradition | amod |
| 25 | tradition | tradition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 derive | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Borrow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | borrow | imperative | you not said here | Tour's _ Wild Wales and p. | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | give | present | the legend | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent legend=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not profess | present · do-support | you not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1-2 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | derive | to-infinitive | you not said here | legend | local tradition | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent it=Result from tradition=Material |
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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