Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 26

The second form of the legend is always told as a moral apologue against precipitate action, and originally occurred in _The Fables of Bidpai_ in its hundred and one forms, all founded on Buddhistic originals (_cf.

Who acts: one · What happens: tell, occur, form, found · To what, where: second form, Fables, all, Buddhistic originals, legend · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (one), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 form	det
2	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 form	amod
3	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 told	nsubj:pass
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 legend	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 legend	det
6	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 form	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 told	aux:pass
8	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 told	advmod
9	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	as	as	ADP	_	13 apologue	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 apologue	det
12	moral	moral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 apologue	amod
13	apologue	apologue	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 told	obl
14	against	against	ADP	_	16 action	case
15	precipitate	precipitate	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 action	compound
16	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 apologue	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 occurred	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 occurred	cc
19	originally	originally	ADV	_	20 occurred	advmod
20	occurred	occur	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 told	conj
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 Fables	case
22	_	_	PUNCT	_	21 in	punct
23	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Fables	det
24	Fables	fable	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 occurred	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 Bidpai	case
26	Bidpai	Bidpai	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Fables	nmod
27	_	_	PUNCT	_	20 occurred	punct
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 hundred	case
29	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 hundred	nmod:poss
30	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 occurred	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 forms	cc
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 forms	nsubj
33	forms	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 hundred	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 founded	punct
35	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	36 founded	nsubj:pass
36	founded	found	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 told	conj
37	on	on	ADP	_	39 originals	case
38	Buddhistic	buddhistic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 originals	amod
39	originals	original	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 founded	obl
40	(	(	PUNCT	_	42 cf	punct
41	_	_	PUNCT	_	42 cf	punct
42	cf	cf	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 originals	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · passive		the second form of the legend		as a moral apologue against precipitate action; always property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	occur	participle			the Fables of Bidpai	in action's hundred; originally property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in fable=Location
3	form	present	one				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	found	participle · passive		all	Buddhistic originals and cf		vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme on original=Source
5	form			the legend			nom form «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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