Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 83
It was Edward Jones who first raised him to that proud position, and William Spencer who securely installed him there, probably for all time.
Who acts: doubt, William · What happens: be, raise, install · To what, where: Edward, proud position
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 (doubt, William), 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 | 3 Edward | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 Edward | cop |
| 3 | Edward | Edward | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 raised | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | Jones | Jones | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Edward | flat |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 raised | nsubj |
| 6 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 raised | advmod |
| 7 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 raised | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 position | case |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 position | det |
| 11 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 position | amod |
| 12 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 raised | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 installed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 installed | cc |
| 15 | William | William | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 installed | nsubj |
| 16 | Spencer | Spencer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 William | flat |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 installed | nsubj |
| 18 | securely | securely | ADV | _ | 19 installed | advmod |
| 19 | installed | install | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 raised | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 installed | obj |
| 21 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 installed | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 time | punct |
| 23 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 26 time | advmod |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 time | case |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 time | det |
| 26 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 installed | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | doubt | Edward | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | raise | past | Edward | that proud position | first property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to position=Destination | |||
| 3 | install | past | William | Edward | there | time | securely property | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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