Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 40
Recently Lord Archibald Campbell has shown laudable interest in the preservation of Gaelic folk- and hero-tales.
Who acts: Lord · What happens: show, preserve · To what, where: laudable interest, Gaelic folk
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 (Lord), 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 | Recently | recently | ADV | _ | 6 shown | advmod |
| 2 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 shown | nsubj |
| 3 | Archibald | Archibald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Lord | flat |
| 4 | Campbell | Campbell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Lord | flat |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 shown | aux |
| 6 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | laudable | laudable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 interest | amod |
| 8 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shown | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 preservation | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 preservation | det |
| 11 | preservation | preservation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 interest | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 folk | case |
| 13 | Gaelic | gaelic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 folk | amod |
| 14 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 preservation | nmod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 folk | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 tales | cc |
| 17 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tales | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 hero | punct |
| 19 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 folk | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 shown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present · perfect | Lord | laudable interest | in the preservation of Gaelic folk and hero tales; recently property | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent interest=Patient in preservation=Topic | |||
| 2 | preserve | Gaelic folk and hero tales | nom preservation «act 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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