Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 44

It was also utilised as a proverb: "_Yr wy'n edivaru cymmaint a'r Gwr a laddodd ei Vilgi_" ("I repent as much as the man who slew his greyhound").

Who acts: Mr. Nutt, man · What happens: utilise, repent, slay · To what, where: apologue, much, greyhound · 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 (Mr. Nutt, man), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 utilised	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 utilised	aux:pass
3	also	also	ADV	_	4 utilised	advmod
4	utilised	utilise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 proverb	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 proverb	det
7	proverb	proverb	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 utilised	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 wy'n	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 wy'n	punct
10	_	_	PUNCT	_	12 wy'n	punct
11	Yr	year	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Sing	12 wy'n	compound
12	wy'n	wy'n	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 proverb	appos
13	edivaru	edivaru	X	_	15 a'r	compound
14	cymmaint	cymmaint	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 a'r	compound
15	a'r	a'r	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wy'n	conj
16	Gwr	Gwr	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 a'r	appos
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 Vilgi	det
18	laddodd	laddodd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Vilgi	amod
19	ei	EI	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Vilgi	compound
20	Vilgi	Vilgi	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 wy'n	nmod
21	_	_	PUNCT	_	20 Vilgi	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 Vilgi	punct
23	(	(	PUNCT	_	26 repent	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 repent	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 repent	nsubj
26	repent	repent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 wy'n	parataxis
27	as	as	ADV	_	28 much	advmod
28	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 repent	obj
29	as	as	ADP	_	31 man	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 man	det
31	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 much	nmod
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 slew	nsubj
33	slew	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 man	acl:relcl
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 greyhound	nmod:poss
35	greyhound	greyhound	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 slew	obj
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 slew	punct
37	)	)	PUNCT	_	26 repent	punct
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 utilised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	utilise	past · passive		apologue	as a proverb	tree rules
2	repent in a quote	present	Mr. Nutt = nutt	much	as the man	tree rules
3	slay in a quote	past	the man	man's greyhound		vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent greyhound=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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