Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 41

The saving of an infant's life by a dog, and the mistaken slaughter of the dog, are not such an improbable combination as to make it impossible that the same event occurred in many places.

Who acts: saving, same event · What happens: not be, make, occur, slaughter · To what, where: such improbable combination, legend, many places, dog

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 (saving, same event), 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	2 saving	det
2	saving	saving	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 combination	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 life	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 infant	det
5	infant	infant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 life	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 infant	case
7	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saving	nmod
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 dog	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 dog	det
10	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saving	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 slaughter	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 slaughter	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 slaughter	det
14	mistaken	mistaken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 slaughter	amod
15	slaughter	slaughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saving	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 dog	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 dog	det
18	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 slaughter	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 saving	punct
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 combination	cop
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 combination	advmod
22	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 combination	amod
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 combination	det
24	improbable	improbable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 combination	amod
25	combination	combination	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 make	mark
27	to	to	PART	_	28 make	mark
28	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 combination	acl
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 make	obj
30	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 make	xcomp
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 occurred	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 event	det
33	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 event	amod
34	event	event	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 occurred	nsubj
35	occurred	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 impossible	advcl
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 places	case
37	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 places	amod
38	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 occurred	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 combination	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	the saving of a infant's life by a dog and the mistaken slaughter of the dog	a such improbable combination			tree rules
2	make	to-infinitive		legend		impossible property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
3	occur	past	the same event		many places		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in place=Location
4	slaughter			the dog			nom slaughter «act 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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