Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 70
It remains only to explain why Jones connected the legend with Llewelyn.
Who acts: legend, Jones · What happens: remain, explain, connect · To what, where: legend
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 (legend, Jones), 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 | 2 remains | nsubj |
| 2 | remains | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 explain | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 explain | mark |
| 5 | explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 remains | xcomp |
| 6 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 connected | advmod |
| 7 | Jones | Jones | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 connected | nsubj |
| 8 | connected | connect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 explain | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 legend | det |
| 10 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 connected | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 Llewelyn | case |
| 12 | Llewelyn | Llewelyn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 legend | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 remains | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | present | legend | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | explain speech: assert | to-infinitive | legend not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | connect | past | Jones | the legend | with Llewelyn | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent legend=Patient with llewelyn=Co-Patient |
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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