Celtic Fairy Tales, _to Alfred Nutt_, sentence 59

If it could succeed in giving a common fund of imaginative wealth to the Celtic and the Saxon children of these isles, it might do more for a true union of hearts than all your politics.

Who acts: volume · What happens: succeed, give, do, fund · To what, where: common fund, Celtic, more, imaginative wealth

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 (volume), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 succeed	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 succeed	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 succeed	aux
4	succeed	succeed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 do	advcl
5	in	in	SCONJ	_	6 giving	mark
6	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 succeed	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fund	det
8	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fund	amod
9	fund	fund	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 giving	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 wealth	case
11	imaginative	imaginative	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 wealth	amod
12	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fund	nmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 Celtic	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Celtic	det
15	Celtic	Celtic	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 giving	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 children	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 children	det
18	Saxon	Saxon	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 children	compound
19	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 Celtic	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 isles	case
21	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	22 isles	det
22	isles	isle	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 children	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 succeed	punct
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 do	nsubj
25	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 do	aux
26	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
27	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 do	obj
28	for	for	ADP	_	31 union	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 union	det
30	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 union	amod
31	union	union	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 more	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 hearts	case
33	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 union	nmod
34	than	than	ADP	_	37 politics	case
35	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 politics	det:predet
36	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 politics	nmod:poss
37	politics	politics	NOUN	Number=Ptan	33 hearts	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	succeed a condition, not said to happen	could	volume			vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	give	gerund	volume not said here	a common fund of imaginative wealth	the Celtic and the Saxon children of this isles	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent fund=Theme to celtic=Recipient
3	do	might	volume	more		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Eventuality
4	fund			imaginative wealth		nom fund «possession 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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