Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 65

The Celtic folk-tale again has interest in retaining many traits of primitive conditions among the early inhabitants of these isles which are preserved by no other record.

Who acts: Celtic folk tale, interest, other record · What happens: have, retain, preserve · To what, where: interest, many traits, isles

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 tale, interest, other record), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tale	det
2	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tale	amod
3	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tale	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 folk	punct
5	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 has	nsubj
6	again	again	ADV	_	5 tale	advmod
7	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 has	obj
9	in	in	SCONJ	_	10 retaining	mark
10	retaining	retain	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 interest	acl
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 traits	amod
12	traits	trait	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 retaining	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 conditions	case
14	primitive	primitive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 conditions	amod
15	conditions	condition	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 traits	nmod
16	among	among	ADP	_	19 inhabitants	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 inhabitants	det
18	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 inhabitants	amod
19	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 retaining	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 isles	case
21	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	22 isles	det
22	isles	isle	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 inhabitants	nmod
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 preserved	nsubj:pass
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 preserved	aux:pass
25	preserved	preserve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 isles	acl:relcl
26	by	by	ADP	_	29 record	case
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	29 record	det
28	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 record	amod
29	record	record	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 preserved	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	the Celtic folk tale	interest		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interest=Patient
2	retain	gerund	interest not said here	many traits of primitive conditions	among the early inhabitants of this isles	tree rules
3	preserve	present · passive	no other record	this isles		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary

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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