Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 8

As a matter of fact, no trace of the tradition in connection with Bedd Gellert can be found before Spencer's time.

Who acts: fact · What happens: find, matter · To what, where: trace

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 (fact), 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	As	as	ADP	_	3 matter	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 matter	det
3	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 found	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 fact	case
5	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 matter	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 trace	punct
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 trace	det
8	trace	trace	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 found	nsubj:pass
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 tradition	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tradition	det
11	tradition	tradition	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 trace	nmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 connection	case
13	connection	connection	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tradition	nmod
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 Bedd	case
15	Bedd	Bedd	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 connection	nmod
16	Gellert	Gellert	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Bedd	flat
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 found	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 found	aux:pass
19	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
20	before	before	ADP	_	23 time	case
21	Spencer	Spencer	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 time	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 Spencer	case
23	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 found	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	can · passive		no trace of the tradition in connection with Bedd			time	as a matter of fact	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme as matter=Attribute
2	matter		fact						nom matter «cognition intransitive»: of=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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