Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 68

Jones found an _englyn_ devoted to _an_ exploit of a dog named Cylart, and chose to interpret it in his second edition, 1794, as _the_ exploit of a greyhound with which all the world (in Wales) were acquainted.

Who acts: Jones, world · What happens: find, devote, _, name, choose, interpret · To what, where: englyn, _ exploit, dog, cairn, second edition

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 (Jones, world), 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	Jones	Jones	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 englyn	det
4	_	_	PUNCT	_	5 englyn	punct
5	englyn	englyn	X	Foreign=Yes	2 found	obj
6	_	_	PUNCT	_	7 devoted	punct
7	devoted	devote	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 englyn	parataxis
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 _	case
9	_	_	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 devoted	xcomp
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 exploit	det
11	_	_	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 exploit	amod
12	exploit	exploit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 _	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 dog	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 dog	det
15	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 exploit	nmod
16	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 dog	acl
17	Cylart	Cylart	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 named	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 chose	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 chose	cc
20	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 found	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 interpret	mark
22	interpret	interpret	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 chose	xcomp
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 interpret	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 edition	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 edition	nmod:poss
26	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	27 edition	amod
27	edition	edition	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 interpret	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 1794	punct
29	1794	1794	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	27 edition	appos
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 exploit	punct
31	as	as	ADP	_	35 exploit	case
32	_	_	PUNCT	_	31 as	punct
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 exploit	det
34	_	_	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 exploit	amod
35	exploit	exploit	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 interpret	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 greyhound	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 greyhound	det
38	greyhound	greyhound	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 exploit	nmod
39	with	with	ADP	_	40 which	case
40	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	49 acquainted	obl
41	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	43 world	det:predet
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 world	det
43	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 acquainted	nsubj
44	(	(	PUNCT	_	46 Wales	punct
45	in	in	ADP	_	46 Wales	case
46	Wales	Wales	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 world	appos
47	)	)	PUNCT	_	46 Wales	punct
48	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 acquainted	cop
49	acquainted	acquainted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 greyhound	acl:relcl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	past	Jones	a englyn			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent englyn=Topic
2	devote	participle					tree rules
3	_	infinitive		a _ exploit of a dog			tree rules
4	name	participle		a dog not said here			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	choose	past	Jones not said here				tree rules
6	interpret	to-infinitive	Jones not said here	cairn	Jones's second edition	as the _ exploit of a greyhound	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme as exploit=Attribute
7	is	past	all world			with a greyhound; acquainted 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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