Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 5
These dates, it will be seen, are of importance.
Who acts: dates · What happens: see, be · To what, where: broadsheet
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 (dates), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 dates | det |
| 2 | dates | date | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 importance | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 dates | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 seen | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 seen | aux:pass |
| 7 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 dates | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 dates | punct |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 importance | cop |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 importance | case |
| 11 | importance | importance | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 importance | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | future · passive | this dates not said here | broadsheet | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | present | this dates | of importance | 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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