Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 77

England, here as elsewhere without any organised means of scientific research in the historical and philological sciences, has to depend on the enthusiasm of a few private individuals for work of national importance.

Who acts: national importance · What happens: mean, have, depend, work

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 (national importance), 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	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 here	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 England	punct
3	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 means	csubj
4	as	as	ADP	_	5 elsewhere	case
5	elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	_	3 here	obl
6	without	without	SCONJ	_	8 organised	mark
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 organised	det
8	organised	organised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 here	advcl
9	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 research	case
11	scientific	scientific	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 research	amod
12	research	research	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 means	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	18 sciences	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sciences	det
15	historical	historical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 sciences	amod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 philological	cc
17	philological	philological	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 historical	conj
18	sciences	science	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 research	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 has	punct
20	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 means	parataxis
21	to	to	PART	_	22 depend	mark
22	depend	depend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 has	xcomp
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 enthusiasm	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 enthusiasm	det
25	enthusiasm	enthusiasm	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 depend	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	30 individuals	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 individuals	det
28	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 individuals	amod
29	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 individuals	amod
30	individuals	individual	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 enthusiasm	nmod
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 work	case
32	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 individuals	nmod
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 importance	case
34	national	national	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 importance	amod
35	importance	importance	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 work	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 means	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	mean	present		of scientific research in the historical sciences	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	have	present			tree rules
3	depend	to-infinitive		on the enthusiasm of a few private individuals for work of national importance	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on enthusiasm=Theme
4	work		national importance		nom work «act 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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