Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 76
M. Luzel, _e.g._, was commissioned by the French Minister of Public Instruction to collect and report on the Breton folk-tales.
Who acts: French Minister · What happens: commission, collect, report · To what, where: M., Breton folk tales
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 (French Minister), 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 | M. | M. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 commissioned | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | Luzel | Luzel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 M. | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 M. | punct |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 e.g. | punct |
| 5 | e.g. | e.g. | ADV | _ | 1 M. | appos |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 e.g. | punct |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 M. | punct |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 commissioned | aux:pass |
| 9 | commissioned | commission | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 Minister | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Minister | det |
| 12 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Minister | amod |
| 13 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 commissioned | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Instruction | case |
| 15 | Public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Instruction | amod |
| 16 | Instruction | instruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Minister | nmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 collect | mark |
| 18 | collect | collect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 commissioned | advcl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 report | cc |
| 20 | report | report | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 collect | conj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 tales | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 tales | det |
| 23 | Breton | Breton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 tales | compound |
| 24 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 tales | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 folk | punct |
| 26 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 report | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 commissioned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | commission | past · passive | the French Minister of Public Instruction | M. | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | collect | to-infinitive | the French Minister of Public Instruction not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | report | infinitive | the French Minister of Public Instruction not said here | the Breton folk tales | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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