Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 15

He tells his stories neatly and with spirit, and retains much that is _volkstuemlich_ in his diction.

Who acts: Patrick, that · What happens: tell, retain, be · To what, where: stories, diction, volkstuemlich · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Notes and References. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Patrick, that), 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	2 tells	nsubj
2	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 stories	nmod:poss
4	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tells	obj
5	neatly	neatly	ADV	_	2 tells	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 spirit	cc
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 spirit	case
8	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 neatly	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 retains	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 retains	cc
11	retains	retain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tells	conj
12	much	much	ADV	_	16 volkstuemlich	advmod
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 volkstuemlich	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 volkstuemlich	cop
15	_	_	PUNCT	_	16 volkstuemlich	punct
16	volkstuemlich	volkstuemlich	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 retains	obl
17	_	_	PUNCT	_	16 volkstuemlich	punct
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 diction	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 diction	nmod:poss
20	diction	diction	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 retains	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tells	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Patrick	Patrick's stories		neatly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
2	retain	present	Patrick not said here		Patrick's diction		tree rules
3	is a	present	that	volkstuemlich			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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