Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 71

Celtic tales are of peculiar interest in this connection, as they afford one of the best fields for studying the problem of diffusion, the most pressing of the problems of the folk-tales just at present, at least in my opinion.

Who acts: Celtic tales, tales, my · What happens: be, afford, study, press, opine · To what, where: connection, one, problem

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 tales, tales, my), 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	2 tales	amod
2	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 interest	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 interest	cop
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 interest	case
5	peculiar	peculiar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 interest	amod
6	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 connection	case
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 connection	det
9	connection	connection	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 interest	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 afford	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 afford	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 afford	nsubj
13	afford	afford	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 interest	parataxis
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 afford	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 fields	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 fields	det
17	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 fields	amod
18	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 one	nmod
19	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 studying	mark
20	studying	study	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 afford	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 problem	det
22	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 studying	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 diffusion	case
24	diffusion	diffusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 problem	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 pressing	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 pressing	det
27	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	28 pressing	advmod
28	pressing	press	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 studying	advcl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 problems	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 problems	det
31	problems	problem	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 pressing	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	36 tales	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 tales	det
34	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 tales	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 folk	punct
36	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 problems	nmod
37	just	just	ADV	_	39 present	advmod
38	at	at	ADP	_	39 present	case
39	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 pressing	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 least	punct
41	at	at	ADP	_	42 least	case
42	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	28 pressing	obl
43	in	in	ADP	_	45 opinion	case
44	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 opinion	nmod:poss
45	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 least	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 interest	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Celtic tales		this connection	of peculiar interest	tree rules
2	afford	infinitive	tales = tale	one of the best fields			tree rules
3	study	gerund	tales = tale not said here	the problem of diffusion			vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent problem=Topic
4	press	gerund	tales = tale not said here			of the problems of the folk tales; at least; at present	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at present=Theme
5	opine		my				nom opinion «cognition transitive»: poss=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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