Celtic Fairy Tales, XXI. Beth Gellert., sentence 94
They might almost have been present at the birth of the legend, which, if my affiliation of it is correct, is not yet quite 100 years old.
Who acts: legend, affiliation · What happens: present, be, not be, affiliate · To what, where: Carlisle, birth
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 (legend, affiliation), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 present | nsubj |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 present | aux |
| 3 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 6 present | advmod |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 present | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 present | aux:pass |
| 6 | present | present | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 birth | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 birth | det |
| 9 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 present | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 legend | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 legend | det |
| 12 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 birth | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 correct | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 correct | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 which | punct |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 correct | mark |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 affiliation | nmod:poss |
| 18 | affiliation | affiliation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 correct | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 affiliation | nmod |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 correct | cop |
| 22 | correct | correct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 legend | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 old | punct |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 old | cop |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 old | advmod |
| 26 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 30 old | advmod |
| 27 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 28 100 | advmod |
| 28 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 years | nummod |
| 29 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 old | obl:unmarked |
| 30 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 present | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 present | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | present | might · perfect · passive | Carlisle | the birth of the legend | almost property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | the legend | correct property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not is | present | yet; year | old property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | affiliate | affiliation | nom affiliation «state 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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