Celtic Fairy Tales, _to Alfred Nutt_, sentence 17

For the more romantic tales I have depended on the Gaelic, and, as I know about as much of Gaelic as an Irish Nationalist M. P., I have had to depend on translators.

Who acts: I · What happens: depend, know about, have · To what, where: much

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, _to Alfred Nutt_. 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	For	for	ADP	_	5 tales	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tales	det
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 romantic	advmod
4	romantic	romantic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tales	amod
5	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 depended	obl
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 depended	nsubj
7	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 depended	aux
8	depended	depend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 Gaelic	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Gaelic	det
11	Gaelic	gaelic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 depended	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 know	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 know	cc
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 know	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 know	mark
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 know	nsubj
17	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 depended	parataxis
18	about	about	ADV	_	20 much	advmod
19	as	as	ADV	_	20 much	advmod
20	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 know	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 Gaelic	case
22	Gaelic	gaelic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 much	nmod
23	as	as	ADP	_	28 P.	case
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 P.	det
25	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 Nationalist	amod
26	Nationalist	Nationalist	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 M.	compound
27	M.	M.	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 P.	compound
28	P.	P.	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 much	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 had	punct
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 had	nsubj
31	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 had	aux
32	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 know	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 depend	mark
34	depend	depend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 had	xcomp
35	on	on	ADP	_	36 translators	case
36	translators	translator	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 depend	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 depended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	depend	present · perfect	I		for the romantic tales; on the Gaelic	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on gaelic=Theme
2	know about	present	I	much of Gaelic	as a M. P.	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer much=Stimulus as p.=Attribute
3	have	present · perfect	I			tree rules
4	depend	to-infinitive	I not said here		on translators	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on translator=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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