Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 23

I pointed out an early instance of this, quoted by a Rabbi of the second century, in my _Fables of Aesop_, i. 105.

Who acts: I · What happens: point out, quote, instance · To what, where: early instance, Fables, this

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 (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 pointed	nsubj
2	pointed	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 pointed	compound:prt
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 instance	det
5	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 instance	amod
6	instance	instance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pointed	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 this	case
8	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 instance	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 quoted	punct
10	quoted	quote	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 instance	acl
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 Rabbi	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 Rabbi	det
13	Rabbi	Rabbi	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 quoted	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 century	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 century	det
16	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 century	amod
17	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Rabbi	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Fables	punct
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 Fables	case
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 Fables	nmod:poss
21	_	_	PUNCT	_	22 Fables	punct
22	Fables	fable	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 quoted	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 Aesop	case
24	Aesop	Aesop	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Fables	nmod
25	_	_	PUNCT	_	24 Aesop	punct
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 105	punct
27	i.	i.	X	Foreign=Yes	28 105	nsubj
28	105	105	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	24 Aesop	appos
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 pointed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	point out	past	I	a early instance of this			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instance=Patient
2	quote speech: other	participle		a early instance of this not said here	my Fables of Aesop	by a Rabbi of the second century	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	instance			this			nom instance «event 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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