Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 31

His four volumes, _Popular Tales of the West Highlands_ (Edinburgh, 1860-2, recently republished by the Islay Association), contain some 120 folk- and hero-tales, told with strict adherence to the language of the narrators, which is given with a literal, a rather too literal, English version.

Who acts: four volumes · What happens: republish, contain, tell, give · To what, where: Popular Tales, some, hero tales, narrators · 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 (four volumes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 volumes	nmod:poss
2	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 volumes	nummod
3	volumes	volume	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 contain	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 volumes	punct
5	_	_	PUNCT	_	7 Tales	punct
6	Popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Tales	amod
7	Tales	Tale	PROPN	Number=Plur	26 contain	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 Highlands	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Highlands	det
10	West	West	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Highlands	compound
11	Highlands	Highlands	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Tales	nmod
12	_	_	PUNCT	_	7 Tales	punct
13	(	(	PUNCT	_	14 Edinburgh	punct
14	Edinburgh	Edinburgh	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Tales	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 1860-2	punct
16	1860-2	1860-2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 Edinburgh	appos
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 republished	punct
18	recently	recently	ADV	_	19 republished	advmod
19	republished	republish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 Tales	acl
20	by	by	ADP	_	23 Association	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Association	det
22	Islay	Islay	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Association	compound
23	Association	Association	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 republished	obl
24	)	)	PUNCT	_	19 republished	punct
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 contain	punct
26	contain	contain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	26 contain	obj
28	120	120	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	29 folk	nummod
29	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 some	nmod
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 folk	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 tales	cc
32	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 tales	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 hero	punct
34	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 folk	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 told	punct
36	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 tales	acl
37	with	with	ADP	_	39 adherence	case
38	strict	strict	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 adherence	amod
39	adherence	adherence	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 told	obl
40	to	to	ADP	_	42 language	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 language	det
42	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 adherence	nmod
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 narrators	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 narrators	det
45	narrators	narrator	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 language	nmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 given	punct
47	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	49 given	nsubj
48	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 given	aux:pass
49	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 narrators	acl
50	with	with	ADP	_	52 literal	case
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 literal	det
52	literal	literal	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 given	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 version	punct
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	60 version	det
55	rather	rather	ADV	_	57 literal	advmod
56	too	too	ADV	_	57 literal	advmod
57	literal	literal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 version	amod
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 literal	punct
59	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 version	amod
60	version	version	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 adherence	conj
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 contain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	republish	participle		Popular Tales of the West Highlands Edinburgh not said here	by the Islay Association; recently property	tree rules
2	contain	infinitive	Islay's four volumes	some		vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot some=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	participle		hero tales not said here	with strict adherence to the language of the narrators and a literal English version	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	give	present · passive		the narrators	with a literal	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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