Celtic Fairy Tales, XXII. Story of Ivan., sentence 7
Borrow, _Wild Wales_, 41, has a reference which seems to imply that the story had crystallised into a Welsh proverb.
Who acts: you, reference · What happens: borrow, have, seem, imply, crystallis · To what, where: _, reference, story, Welsh proverb
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXII. Story of Ivan.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, reference), 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 | Borrow | borrow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 _ | punct |
| 3 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Borrow | obj |
| 4 | Wild | Wild | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Wales | compound |
| 5 | Wales | Wales | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 _ | conj |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 1 Borrow | punct |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 41 | punct |
| 8 | 41 | 41 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Borrow | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 has | punct |
| 10 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Borrow | parataxis |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 reference | det |
| 12 | reference | reference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 has | obj |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 seems | nsubj |
| 14 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 reference | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 imply | mark |
| 16 | imply | imply | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 seems | xcomp |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 crystallised | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 story | det |
| 19 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 crystallised | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 crystallised | aux |
| 21 | crystallised | crystallis | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 imply | advcl |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 proverb | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 proverb | det |
| 24 | Welsh | welsh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 proverb | amod |
| 25 | proverb | proverb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 crystallised | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Borrow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | borrow | imperative | you not said here | _ and Wild Wales | 41 obl | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent _=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | present | a reference | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reference=Patient | |||||
| 3 | seem | present | a reference | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | imply | to-infinitive | a reference not said here | vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 5 | crystallis | past · perfect · passive | the story | a Welsh proverb | tree rules |
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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