Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 40
But first it may be desirable to point out why it is necessary to assume that the legend is a legend and not a fact.
Who acts: legend · What happens: be, point out, assume · To what, where: legend
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 (legend), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 desirable | cc |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 desirable | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 desirable | nsubj |
| 4 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 desirable | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 desirable | cop |
| 6 | desirable | desirable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 point | mark |
| 8 | point | point | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 desirable | advcl |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 point | compound:prt |
| 10 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 necessary | advmod |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 necessary | expl |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 necessary | cop |
| 13 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 point | ccomp |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 assume | mark |
| 15 | assume | assume | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 necessary | csubj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 legend | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 legend | det |
| 18 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 legend | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 legend | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 legend | det |
| 21 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 assume | ccomp |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 fact | cc |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 fact | advmod |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 fact | det |
| 25 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 legend | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 desirable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | may | legend | desirable, first property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | point out | to-infinitive | legend not said here | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | legend not said here | necessary property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | assume | to-infinitive | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is a | present | the legend | a legend and a fact | tree rules |
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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