Celtic Fairy Tales, _to Alfred Nutt_, sentence 32

On the whole, the industry of the collectors of Celtic folk-lore is to be commended, as may be seen from the survey of it I have prefixed to the Notes and References at the end of the volume.

Who acts: I · What happens: commend, see, prefix, survey · To what, where: whole industry, survey, end

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	On	on	ADP	_	6 industry	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 industry	det
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 industry	amod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 industry	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 industry	det
6	industry	industry	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 commended	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 collectors	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 collectors	det
9	collectors	collector	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 industry	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	14 lore	case
11	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 lore	amod
12	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lore	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 folk	punct
14	lore	lore	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 collectors	nmod
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 commended	aux
16	to	to	PART	_	18 commended	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 commended	aux:pass
18	commended	commend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 seen	punct
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 seen	mark
21	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 seen	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 seen	aux:pass
23	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 commended	advcl
24	from	from	ADP	_	26 survey	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 survey	det
26	survey	survey	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 seen	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 survey	nmod
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 prefixed	nsubj
30	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 prefixed	aux
31	prefixed	prefix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 seen	conj
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 Notes	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Notes	det
34	Notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 prefixed	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 References	cc
36	References	reference	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 Notes	conj
37	at	at	ADP	_	39 end	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 end	det
39	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 prefixed	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 volume	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 volume	det
42	volume	volume	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 end	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 commended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	commend	present · passive			the whole industry of the collectors of Celtic folk lore			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»
2	see	may · passive			the survey of survey			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»
3	prefix	present · perfect	I			at the end of the volume	to the Notes and References	tree rules
4	survey			survey				nom survey «act 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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