Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 5

Campbell, of Islay, whose _Popular Tales_ and MS. collections (partly described by Mr. Alfred Nutt in _Folk-Lore_, i. 369-83) contain references to no less than 1281 tales (many of them, of course, variants and scraps).

Who acts: Alfred, Folk · What happens: describe, contain · To what, where: Campbell collections, references

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 (Alfred, Folk), 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	Campbell	Campbell	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 collections	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Islay	punct
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Islay	case
4	Islay	Islay	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Campbell	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Tales	punct
6	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	9 Tales	nmod:poss
7	_	_	PUNCT	_	9 Tales	punct
8	Popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Tales	amod
9	Tales	Tale	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 Islay	appos
10	_	_	PUNCT	_	9 Tales	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 MS.	cc
12	MS.	MS.	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Campbell	conj
13	collections	collection	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 described	nsubj:pass
14	(	(	PUNCT	_	16 described	punct
15	partly	partly	ADV	_	16 described	advmod
16	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 Alfred	case
18	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Alfred	nmod:desc
19	Alfred	Alfred	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 described	obl:agent
20	Nutt	Nutt	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Alfred	flat
21	in	in	SCONJ	_	31 contain	mark
22	_	_	PUNCT	_	31 contain	punct
23	Folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 contain	nsubj
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 Lore	punct
25	Lore	Lore	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Folk	appos
26	_	_	PUNCT	_	25 Lore	punct
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 369-83	punct
28	i.	i.	X	Foreign=Yes	29 369-83	nsubj
29	369-83	369-83	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	23 Folk	appos
30	)	)	PUNCT	_	29 369-83	punct
31	contain	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 described	advcl
32	references	reference	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 contain	obj
33	to	to	ADP	_	38 tales	case
34	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	38 tales	det
35	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	37 1281	advmod
36	than	than	ADP	_	35 less	fixed
37	1281	1281	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	38 tales	nummod
38	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 contain	obl
39	(	(	PUNCT	_	40 many	punct
40	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 tales	appos
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 them	case
42	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 many	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 course	punct
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 course	case
45	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 many	advmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 variants	punct
47	variants	variant	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 course	appos
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 scraps	cc
49	scraps	scrap	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 variants	conj
50	)	)	PUNCT	_	40 many	punct
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 described	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	describe	participle · passive	Alfred Mr.	Campbell collections				partly property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	contain	present	Folk	references				to no 1281 tales	vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot reference=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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