Celtic Fairy Tales, _to Alfred Nutt_, sentence 30

The Celtic folk-tales have been collected while the practice of story-telling is still in full vigour, though there are every signs that its term of life is already numbered.

Who acts: practice, signs · What happens: collect, be, number, practice, term · To what, where: Celtic folk tales, full vigour, term, story telling, life

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 (practice, signs), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tales	det
2	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tales	amod
3	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tales	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 folk	punct
5	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 collected	nsubj:pass
6	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 collected	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 collected	aux:pass
8	collected	collect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	20 vigour	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 practice	det
11	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 vigour	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 telling	case
13	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 telling	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 story	punct
15	telling	telling	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 practice	nmod
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 vigour	cop
17	still	still	ADV	_	20 vigour	advmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 vigour	case
19	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 vigour	amod
20	vigour	vigour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 collected	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 are	punct
22	though	though	SCONJ	_	24 are	mark
23	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	24 are	expl
24	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 collected	conj
25	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	26 signs	det
26	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 are	nsubj
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 numbered	mark
28	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 term	nmod:poss
29	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 numbered	nsubj:pass
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 life	case
31	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 term	nmod
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 numbered	aux:pass
33	already	already	ADV	_	34 numbered	advmod
34	numbered	number	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 signs	acl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 collected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	collect	present · perfect · passive		the Celtic folk tales			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	is	present	the practice of story telling		full vigour	still	tree rules
3	does	present	every signs		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	number	present · passive	every signs not said here	practice's term of life			vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	practice			story telling			nom practice «act transitive»: of=patient
6	term		practice	life			nom term «communication transitive»: poss=agent 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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