Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 6

Celtic folk-tales, while more numerous, are also the oldest of the tales of modern European races; some of them--_e.g._, "Connla," in the present selection, occurring in the oldest Irish vellums.

Who acts: Celtic folk tales, modern European races · What happens: be, occur, tell · To what, where: present selection, oldest Irish vellums · 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 (Celtic folk tales, modern European races), 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	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tales	amod
2	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tales	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 folk	punct
4	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 oldest	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 numerous	punct
6	while	while	SCONJ	_	8 numerous	mark
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 numerous	advmod
8	numerous	numerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tales	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tales	punct
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 oldest	cop
11	also	also	ADV	_	13 oldest	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 oldest	det
13	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 tales	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 tales	det
16	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 oldest	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 races	case
18	modern	modern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 races	amod
19	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 races	amod
20	races	race	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 tales	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 some	punct
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 oldest	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 some	nmod
25	--	--	PUNCT	_	13 oldest	punct
26	_	_	PUNCT	_	13 oldest	punct
27	e.g.	e.g.	ADV	_	13 oldest	flat:foreign
28	_	_	PUNCT	_	13 oldest	punct
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 Connla	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 Connla	punct
31	Connla	Connla	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 oldest	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 oldest	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 oldest	punct
34	in	in	ADP	_	37 selection	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 selection	det
36	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 selection	amod
37	selection	selection	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 oldest	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 occurring	punct
39	occurring	occur	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 oldest	advcl
40	in	in	ADP	_	44 vellums	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 vellums	det
42	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	44 vellums	amod
43	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 vellums	amod
44	vellums	vellum	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 occurring	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 oldest	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Celtic folk tales	the present selection	of the tales of modern European races; Connla obl; old property	tree rules
2	occur	gerund	Celtic folk tales not said here	the oldest Irish vellums		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in vellum=Location
3	tell		modern European races			nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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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