Celtic Fairy Tales, _to Alfred Nutt_, sentence 55

Yet both he and I have striven to give Celtic things as they appear to, and attract, the English mind, rather than attempt the hopeless task of representing them as they are to Celts.

Who acts: details, hopeless task · What happens: strive, give, appear, attract, attempt, represent · To what, where: Mr., Celtic things, English mind, hopeless task, details

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 (details, hopeless task), 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	Yet	yet	CCONJ	_	7 striven	cc
2	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 he	reparandum
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 striven	nsubj:pass
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 I	cc
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 he	conj
6	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 striven	aux
7	striven	strive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 give	mark
9	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 striven	xcomp
10	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 things	amod
11	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 give	obj
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 appear	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 appear	nsubj
14	appear	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 give	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	14 appear	case
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 attract	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 attract	cc
18	attract	attract	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 striven	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 mind	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 mind	det
21	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 mind	amod
22	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 attract	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 attempt	punct
24	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	26 attempt	cc
25	than	than	ADP	_	24 rather	fixed
26	attempt	attempt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 attract	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 task	det
28	hopeless	hopeless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 task	amod
29	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 attempt	obj
30	of	of	SCONJ	_	31 representing	mark
31	representing	represent	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 task	acl
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 representing	obj
33	as	as	ADP	_	37 Celts	case
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 Celts	nsubj
35	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 Celts	cop
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 Celts	case
37	Celts	celt	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 attempt	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 striven	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	strive	present · perfect · passive		Mr.		tree rules
2	give	to-infinitive		Celtic things		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
3	appear	present	details = detail			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	attract	infinitive		the English mind		vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient
5	attempt	infinitive		the hopeless task		vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Eventuality
6	represent	gerund	the hopeless task not said here	details = detail		vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=Theme
7	is	present	details = detail		as Celts	tree rules

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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