Celtic Fairy Tales, _to Alfred Nutt_, sentence 54

He has endeavoured in his illustrations to retain as much as possible of Celtic ornamentation; for all details of Celtic archaeology he has authority.

Who acts: Mr. · What happens: endeavour, retain, have, illustrate, detail · To what, where: illustrations, much, authority, Celtic archaeology

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 (Mr.), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 endeavoured	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 endeavoured	aux
3	endeavoured	endeavour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 illustrations	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 illustrations	nmod:poss
6	illustrations	illustration	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 endeavoured	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 retain	mark
8	retain	retain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 endeavoured	advcl
9	as	as	ADV	_	10 much	advmod
10	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 retain	obj
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 possible	mark
12	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 much	advcl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 ornamentation	case
14	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 ornamentation	amod
15	ornamentation	ornamentation	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 possible	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 details	punct
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 details	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 details	det
19	details	detail	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 endeavoured	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 archaeology	case
21	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 archaeology	amod
22	archaeology	archaeology	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 details	nmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 has	nsubj
24	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 archaeology	acl:relcl
25	authority	authority	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 has	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 endeavoured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	endeavour	present · perfect	Mr.		Mr.'s illustrations	for all details of Celtic archaeology	tree rules
2	retain	to-infinitive	Mr. not said here	much			tree rules
3	have	present	Mr.	authority			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent authority=Patient
4	illustrate		Mr.				nom illustration «communication transitive»: poss=agent
5	detail			Celtic archaeology			nom detail «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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