Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 60

From this incident is elicited a very common Welsh proverb [that given above which occurs also in 'The Fables of Cattwg;' it will be observed that it is quite indefinite.]" "

Who acts: common Welsh proverb, proverb · What happens: elicit, give, occur, observe, be · To what, where: common Welsh proverb, incident, Fables, proverb

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 (common Welsh proverb, proverb), 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	From	from	ADP	_	3 incident	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 incident	det
3	incident	incident	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 elicited	obl
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 elicited	aux:pass
5	elicited	elicit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 proverb	det
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 common	advmod
8	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 proverb	amod
9	Welsh	welsh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 proverb	amod
10	proverb	proverb	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 elicited	obj
11	[	[	PUNCT	_	13 given	punct
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 given	nsubj:pass
13	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 proverb	acl
14	above	above	ADP	_	16 occurs	mark
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 occurs	nsubj
16	occurs	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 given	advcl
17	also	also	ADV	_	16 occurs	advmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 Fables	case
19	'	'	PUNCT	_	21 Fables	punct
20	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Fables	det
21	Fables	fable	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 occurs	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 Cattwg	case
23	Cattwg	Cattwg	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Fables	nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 observed	punct
25	'	'	PUNCT	_	29 observed	punct
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 observed	nsubj:pass
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 observed	aux
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 observed	aux:pass
29	observed	observe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 elicited	parataxis
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 indefinite	mark
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 indefinite	nsubj
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 indefinite	cop
33	quite	quite	ADV	_	34 indefinite	advmod
34	indefinite	indefinite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 observed	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 observed	punct
36	]	]	PUNCT	_	29 observed	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 elicited	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 elicited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	elicit	present · passive		a common Welsh proverb	this incident		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: proverb=Patient
2	give	participle · passive	a common Welsh proverb not said here	a common Welsh proverb			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	occur	present			the Fables of Cattwg		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in fable=Location
4	observe	future · passive		proverb			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
5	is	present	proverb			indefinite property	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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