Celtic Fairy Tales, _to Alfred Nutt_, sentence 37

One characteristic of the Celtic folk-lore I have endeavoured to represent in my selection, because it is nearly unique at the present day in Europe.

Who acts: I, selection, my · What happens: endeavour, represent, be, select · To what, where: Celtic folk lore

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, selection, my), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 characteristic	nummod
2	characteristic	characteristic	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	8 lore	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lore	det
5	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lore	amod
6	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lore	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 folk	punct
8	lore	lore	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 characteristic	nmod
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 endeavoured	nsubj
10	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 endeavoured	aux
11	endeavoured	endeavour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 lore	acl:relcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 represent	mark
13	represent	represent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 endeavoured	xcomp
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 selection	case
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 selection	nmod:poss
16	selection	selection	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 represent	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 unique	punct
18	because	because	SCONJ	_	22 unique	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 unique	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 unique	cop
21	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	22 unique	advmod
22	unique	unique	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 characteristic	amod
23	at	at	ADP	_	26 day	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 day	det
25	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 day	amod
26	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 unique	obl
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 Europe	case
28	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 day	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 characteristic	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	endeavour	present · perfect	I	the Celtic folk lore not said here			tree rules
2	represent	to-infinitive	I not said here			in my selection	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in selection=Attribute
3	is	present	selection		day	nearly, unique property	tree rules
4	select		my				nom selection «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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