Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 20
S. Beal gave the earliest known version from the Chinese translation of the _Vinaya Pitaka_ in the _Academy_ of Nov. 4, 1882.
Who acts: S., Vinaya Pitaka · What happens: give, know, translate · To what, where: earliest known version, Chinese translation
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 (S., Vinaya Pitaka), 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 | S. | S. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | Beal | Beal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 S. | flat |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 version | det |
| 5 | earliest | early | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 version | amod |
| 6 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 version | amod |
| 7 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 translation | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 translation | det |
| 10 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 translation | amod |
| 11 | translation | translation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Pitaka | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Pitaka | det |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 Vinaya | punct |
| 15 | Vinaya | Vinaya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Pitaka | compound |
| 16 | Pitaka | Pitaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 translation | nmod |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 _ | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 _ | det |
| 20 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 _ | compound |
| 21 | Academy | Academy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 _ | compound |
| 22 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 4 | case |
| 24 | Nov. | November | PROPN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 25 4 | nmod:unmarked |
| 25 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 _ | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 4 | punct |
| 27 | 1882 | 1882 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 4 | flat |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | S. | the earliest known version | the Chinese translation of the Vinaya Pitaka | in the _ Academy _ of 4 Nov. | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent version=Theme | ||
| 2 | know | participle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | translate | the Vinaya Pitaka | nom translation «communication intransitive»: of=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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