Celtic Fairy Tales, _to Alfred Nutt_, sentence 24

In short, I have tried to put myself into the position of an _ollamh_ or _sheenachie_ familiar with both forms of Gaelic, and anxious to put his stories in the best way to attract English children.

Who acts: I · What happens: try, put, attract · To what, where: myself, position, stories, best way, English children

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	In	in	ADP	_	2 short	case
2	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tried	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 tried	nsubj
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tried	aux
6	tried	try	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 short	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 put	mark
8	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tried	xcomp
9	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 put	obj
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 position	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 position	det
12	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 ollamh	case
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 ollamh	det
15	_	_	PUNCT	_	16 ollamh	punct
16	ollamh	ollamh	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 position	nmod
17	_	_	PUNCT	_	6 tried	punct
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 sheenachie	cc
19	_	_	PUNCT	_	20 sheenachie	punct
20	sheenachie	sheenachie	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 short	conj
21	_	_	PUNCT	_	22 familiar	punct
22	familiar	familiar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 short	conj
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 forms	case
24	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	25 forms	det
25	forms	form	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 familiar	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 Gaelic	case
27	Gaelic	gaelic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 forms	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 anxious	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 anxious	cc
30	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 short	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 put	mark
32	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 anxious	xcomp
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 stories	nmod:poss
34	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 put	obj
35	in	in	ADP	_	38 way	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 way	det
37	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	38 way	amod
38	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 put	obl
39	to	to	PART	_	40 attract	mark
40	attract	attract	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 put	advcl
41	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 children	amod
42	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 attract	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 short	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	try	present · perfect	I			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	put not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	myself	the position of a ollamh	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent myself=Goal
3	put	to-infinitive		Gaelic's stories	the best way	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent story=Theme in way=Destination
4	attract	to-infinitive		English children		vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=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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