Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 83

In my remarks I have mainly confined myself to discussing the origin and diffusion of the various tales, so far as anything definite could be learnt or conjectured on that subject.

Who acts: my · What happens: confine, discuss, learn, conjecture, remark, diffuse · To what, where: I, remarks, origin, anything, subject, various 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 (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	In	in	ADP	_	3 remarks	case
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 remarks	nmod:poss
3	remarks	remark	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 confined	obl
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 confined	nsubj:pass
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 confined	aux
6	mainly	mainly	ADV	_	7 confined	advmod
7	confined	confine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	7 confined	obl:unmarked
9	to	to	SCONJ	_	10 discussing	mark
10	discussing	discuss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 confined	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 origin	det
12	origin	origin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 discussing	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 diffusion	cc
14	diffusion	diffusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 origin	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 tales	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 tales	det
17	various	various	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 tales	amod
18	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 diffusion	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 learnt	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 far	advmod
21	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 learnt	advmod
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 learnt	mark
23	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	27 learnt	nsubj:pass
24	definite	definite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 anything	amod
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 learnt	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 learnt	aux:pass
27	learnt	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 confined	conj
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 conjectured	cc
29	conjectured	conjecture	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 learnt	conj
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 subject	case
31	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 subject	det
32	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 conjectured	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 confined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	confine	present · perfect · passive		I	my remarks	myself obl:unmarked; mainly property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in remark=Destination
2	discuss speech: other	gerund		the origin and diffusion of the various tales			vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent origin=Topic
3	learn	could · passive		anything		far property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
4	conjecture	participle			that subject		vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	remark		my				nom remark «communication transitive»: poss=agent
6	diffuse			the various tales			nom diffusion «process transitive»: of=patient

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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