Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 87
The air is from R. Roberts' "Collection of Welsh Airs," but what connection it has with the legend I have been unable to ascertain.
Who acts: air, connection, I · What happens: be, have, ascertain · To what, where: Collection, connection, 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 (air, connection, I), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 air | det |
| 2 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Collection | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 Collection | cop |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 Collection | case |
| 5 | R. | R. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Roberts | compound |
| 6 | Roberts | Roberts | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Collection | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 6 Roberts | case |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Collection | punct |
| 9 | Collection | collection | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Airs | case |
| 11 | Welsh | Welsh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Airs | compound |
| 12 | Airs | Air | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 Collection | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Airs | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Airs | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 what | cc |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 Airs | nmod |
| 17 | connection | connection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 what | nsubj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 has | nsubj |
| 19 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 connection | acl:relcl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 legend | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 legend | det |
| 22 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 has | obl |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 unable | nsubj |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 unable | aux |
| 25 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 unable | cop |
| 26 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 legend | acl:relcl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 ascertain | mark |
| 28 | ascertain | ascertain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 unable | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 Collection | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the air | R. Roberts's Collection | of Welsh Airs R. Roberts's Collection | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | present | connection | connection not said here | with the legend | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent connection=Patient | |||
| 3 | is | present · perfect | I | the legend not said here | unable property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | ascertain | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=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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