Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 80
Rhys had informed me, that the collocation of letters _rt_ is un-Welsh.
Who acts: Rhys, collocation · What happens: inform, be, collocate · To what, where: me, letters
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 (Rhys, collocation), 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 | Rhys | Rhys | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 informed | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 informed | aux |
| 3 | informed | inform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 informed | iobj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 un-Welsh | punct |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 un-Welsh | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 collocation | det |
| 8 | collocation | collocation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 un-Welsh | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 letters | case |
| 10 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 collocation | nmod |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 collocation | punct |
| 12 | rt | Rt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 collocation | flat |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 collocation | punct |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 un-Welsh | cop |
| 15 | un-Welsh | un-welsh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 informed | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 informed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inform speech: other | past · perfect | Rhys | me | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the collocation of letters | un-welsh property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | collocate | letters | nom collocation «communication transitive»: of=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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