Celtic Fairy Tales, _to Alfred Nutt_, sentence 50

In making my selection, and in all doubtful points of treatment, I have had resource to the wide knowledge of my friend Mr. Alfred Nutt in all branches of Celtic folk-lore.

Who acts: I, my · What happens: make, have, select, point · To what, where: selection, doubtful points, resource, branches, treatment

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, 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	In	in	SCONJ	_	2 making	mark
2	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 had	advcl
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 selection	nmod:poss
4	selection	selection	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 making	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 points	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 points	cc
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 points	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 points	det
9	doubtful	doubtful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 points	amod
10	points	point	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 making	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 treatment	case
12	treatment	treatment	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 points	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 making	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 had	nsubj
15	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 had	aux
16	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
17	resource	resource	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 knowledge	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 knowledge	det
20	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 knowledge	amod
21	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 friend	case
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 friend	nmod:poss
24	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 knowledge	nmod
25	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Alfred	nmod:desc
26	Alfred	Alfred	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 friend	appos
27	Nutt	Nutt	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Alfred	flat
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 branches	case
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 branches	det
30	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 had	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	35 lore	case
32	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 lore	amod
33	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 lore	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 folk	punct
35	lore	lore	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 branches	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	gerund	I not said here	my selection	all doubtful points of treatment		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset selection=Product
2	have	present · perfect	I	resource	all branches of Celtic folk lore	to the wide knowledge of my friend	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent resource=Patient
3	select		my				nom selection «act transitive»: poss=agent
4	point			treatment			nom point «cognition 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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