Celtic Fairy Tales, _to Alfred Nutt_, sentence 35

I have not scrupled to retain a Celtic turn of speech, and here and there a Celtic word, which I have _not_ explained within brackets--a practice to be abhorred of all good men.

Who acts: I · What happens: not scruple, retain, have, not explain, abhor · To what, where: Celtic word, Celtic turn

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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 scrupled	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 scrupled	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 scrupled	advmod
4	scrupled	scruple	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 retain	mark
6	retain	retain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 scrupled	xcomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 turn	det
8	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 turn	amod
9	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 retain	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 speech	case
11	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 turn	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 here	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 here	cc
14	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 scrupled	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 there	cc
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 here	expl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 word	det
18	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 word	amod
19	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scrupled	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 have	punct
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 have	obj
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 have	nsubj
23	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 word	acl:relcl
24	_	_	PUNCT	_	27 explained	punct
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 explained	advmod
26	_	_	PUNCT	_	27 explained	punct
27	explained	explain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 have	advcl
28	within	within	ADP	_	29 brackets	case
29	brackets	bracket	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 explained	obl
30	--	--	PUNCT	_	32 practice	punct
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 practice	det
32	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 word	appos
33	to	to	PART	_	35 abhorred	mark
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 abhorred	aux:pass
35	abhorred	abhor	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 practice	acl
36	of	of	ADP	_	39 men	case
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	39 men	det
38	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 men	amod
39	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 abhorred	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 scrupled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not scruple	present · perfect	I	a Celtic word	here		tree rules
2	retain	to-infinitive	I not said here	a Celtic turn of speech			tree rules
3	have	present	I	a Celtic word			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient
4	not explain speech: assert	participle	I not said here			within brackets	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	abhor	to-infinitive · passive	I not said here			of all good men	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»

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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