Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 18
It is indeed, as Mr. Clouston points out, still current in India, the land of its birth.
Who acts: story, Clouston · What happens: be, point out
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 (story, Clouston), 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 | 2 is | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 2 is | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 points | punct |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 points | mark |
| 6 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Clouston | nmod:desc |
| 7 | Clouston | Clouston | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 points | nsubj |
| 8 | points | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 is | parataxis |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 points | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 current | punct |
| 11 | still | still | ADV | _ | 12 current | advmod |
| 12 | current | current | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 points | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 India | case |
| 14 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 current | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 land | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 land | det |
| 17 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 current | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 birth | case |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 birth | nmod:poss |
| 20 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 land | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | story | indeed property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | point out | present | Clouston Mr. | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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