Celtic Fairy Tales, XXIV. Battle of Birds., sentence 6
Practically, I have reserved _thou_ for the speech of giants, who may be supposed to be somewhat old-fashioned.
Who acts: I · What happens: reserve, suppose, be, speak · To what, where: thou, speech, giants · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXIV. Battle of Birds.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Practically | practically | ADV | _ | 5 reserved | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Practically | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 reserved | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 reserved | aux |
| 5 | reserved | reserve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 thou | punct |
| 7 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 reserved | obl |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 thou | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 speech | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 speech | det |
| 11 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reserved | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 giants | case |
| 13 | giants | giant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 speech | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 supposed | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 supposed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 supposed | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 supposed | aux:pass |
| 18 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 speech | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 fashioned | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 fashioned | cop |
| 21 | somewhat | somewhat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 fashioned | amod |
| 22 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 fashioned | amod |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 old | punct |
| 24 | fashioned | fashioned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 supposed | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 reserved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reserve | present · perfect | I | thou | for the speech of giants; practically property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for speech=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | suppose | may · passive | the speech of giants | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | fashioned property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | speak | giants | nom speech «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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