Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 52

It still remains to explain how and when this general legend of rash action was localised and specialised at Bedd Gelert: I believe I have discovered this.

Who acts: popularity, I · What happens: remain, explain, localise, specialis, believe, discover · To what, where: general legend, this · 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 (popularity, I), 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	3 remains	nsubj
2	still	still	ADV	_	3 remains	advmod
3	remains	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 explain	mark
5	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 remains	xcomp
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 localised	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 localised	cc
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 localised	advmod
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 legend	det
10	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 legend	amod
11	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 localised	nsubj:pass
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 action	case
13	rash	rash	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 action	compound
14	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 legend	nmod
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 localised	aux:pass
16	localised	localise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 explain	ccomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 specialised	cc
18	specialised	specialis	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 localised	conj
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 Bedd	case
20	Bedd	Bedd	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 specialised	obl:agent
21	Gelert	Gelert	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Bedd	flat
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 believe	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 believe	nsubj
24	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 remains	parataxis
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 discovered	nsubj
26	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 discovered	aux
27	discovered	discover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 believe	ccomp
28	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 discovered	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 remains	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	remain	present	popularity		still	tree rules
2	explain speech: assert	to-infinitive	popularity not said here			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	localise	past · passive		this general legend of rash action		tree rules
4	specialis	participle				tree rules
5	believe	present	I			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	discover	present · perfect	I	this		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Topic

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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