Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 56

This result is a striking confirmation of the general truth that folk-lores of different countries resemble one another in proportion to their contiguity and to the continuity of language and culture between them.

Who acts: result, folk lores · What happens: strike, be, resemble · To what, where: striking confirmation, proportion

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 (result, folk lores), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 result	det
2	result	result	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 confirmation	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 confirmation	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 confirmation	det
5	striking	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 confirmation	amod
6	confirmation	confirmation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 truth	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 truth	det
9	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 truth	amod
10	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 confirmation	nmod
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 resemble	obj
12	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lores	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 folk	punct
14	lores	lore	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 resemble	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 countries	case
16	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 countries	amod
17	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 lores	nmod
18	resemble	resemble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 confirmation	acl:relcl
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 resemble	obj
20	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	19 one	fixed
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 proportion	case
22	proportion	proportion	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 resemble	obl
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 contiguity	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 contiguity	nmod:poss
25	contiguity	contiguity	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 resemble	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 continuity	cc
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 continuity	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 continuity	det
29	continuity	continuity	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 contiguity	conj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 language	case
31	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 continuity	nmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 culture	cc
33	culture	culture	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 language	conj
34	between	between	ADP	_	35 them	case
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 culture	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 confirmation	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	strike	gerund					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	this result	a striking confirmation		of the general truth	tree rules
3	resemble	present	folk lores of different countries	a striking confirmation	proportion	to countries's contiguity and the continuity of language and culture between contiguity	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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