Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 63
Mr. Spencer got his account; oral tradition does not indulge in dates _Anno Domini_.
Who acts: Mr., oral tradition · What happens: get, not indulge, account · To what, where: account, Anno, dates
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., oral tradition), 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 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 got | nsubj |
| 2 | Spencer | Spencer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mr. | flat |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 account | nmod:poss |
| 5 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 indulge | punct |
| 7 | oral | oral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tradition | amod |
| 8 | tradition | tradition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 indulge | nsubj |
| 9 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 indulge | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 indulge | advmod |
| 11 | indulge | indulge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 got | parataxis |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 dates | case |
| 13 | dates | date | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 indulge | obl |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 Anno | punct |
| 15 | Anno | Anno | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 indulge | obj |
| 16 | Domini | Domini | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Anno | flat |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 indulge | punct |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Mr. | Mr.'s account | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer account=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not indulge | present · do-support | oral tradition | Anno | dates | tree rules | |||
| 3 | account | Mr. | nom account «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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