Celtic Fairy Tales, _to Alfred Nutt_, sentence 28

This superiority of the Celtic folk-tales is due as much to the conditions under which they have been collected, as to any innate superiority of the folk-imagination.

Who acts: superiority · What happens: be, collect · To what, where: conditions

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 (superiority), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 superiority	det
2	superiority	superiority	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 due	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	8 tales	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tales	det
5	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tales	amod
6	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tales	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 folk	punct
8	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 superiority	nmod
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 due	cop
10	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	as	as	ADP	_	12 much	case
12	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 due	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 conditions	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 conditions	det
15	conditions	condition	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 much	obl
16	under	under	ADP	_	17 which	case
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 collected	obl
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 collected	nsubj:pass
19	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 collected	aux
20	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 collected	aux:pass
21	collected	collect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 conditions	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 superiority	punct
23	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	27 superiority	case
24	to	to	ADP	_	23 as	fixed
25	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	27 superiority	det
26	innate	innate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 superiority	amod
27	superiority	superiority	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 collected	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	32 imagination	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 imagination	det
30	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 imagination	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 folk	punct
32	imagination	imagination	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 superiority	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 due	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	this superiority of the Celtic folk tales			due property	tree rules
2	be		this superiority of the Celtic folk tales not said here			to the conditions	tree rules
3	collect	present · perfect · passive		conditions = condition	the conditions		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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