Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 89
It is almost impossible to distinguish palaeozoic and cainozoic strata in oral tradition.
What happens: be, distinguish · To what, where: palaeozoic strata, oral tradition
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: 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 | 4 impossible | expl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 impossible | cop |
| 3 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 4 impossible | advmod |
| 4 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 distinguish | mark |
| 6 | distinguish | distinguish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 impossible | csubj |
| 7 | palaeozoic | palaeozoic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 strata | amod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 cainozoic | cc |
| 9 | cainozoic | cainozoic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 palaeozoic | conj |
| 10 | strata | strata | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 distinguish | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 tradition | case |
| 12 | oral | oral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tradition | amod |
| 13 | tradition | tradition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 distinguish | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 impossible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | almost, impossible property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | distinguish | to-infinitive | palaeozoic strata | oral tradition | vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Attribute strata=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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