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title: Yet both he and I have striven to give Celtic things as they appear… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Yet both he and I have striven to give Celtic things as they appear to, and attract, the English mind, rather than attempt the hopeless task of representing them as they are to Celts. Who acts: details, hopeless task. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, _to Alfred Nutt_, with its de
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, \_to Alfred Nutt\_, sentence 55

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Yet both he and I have striven to give Celtic things as they appear to, and attract, the English mind, rather than attempt the hopeless task of representing them as they are to Celts.

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**Who acts:** details, hopeless task · **What happens:** strive, give, appear, attract, attempt, represent · **To what, where:** Mr., Celtic things, English mind, hopeless task, details

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, \_to Alfred Nutt\_. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (details, hopeless task), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7885:2:55
# text = Yet both he and I have striven to give Celtic things as they appear to, and attract, the English mind, rather than attempt the hopeless task of representing them as they are to Celts.
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	reparandum	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	conj	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	striven	strive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	appear	appear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	attract	attract	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	26	cc	_	_
25	than	than	ADP	IN	_	24	fixed	_	_
26	attempt	attempt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	hopeless	hopeless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	task	task	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
31	representing	represent	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	acl	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	as	as	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
35	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Celts	celt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strive** | present · perfect · passive |  | Mr. |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | to-infinitive |  | Celtic things |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
| 3 | **appear** | present | details *= detail* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **attract** | infinitive |  | the English mind |  |  |  |  | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient |
| 5 | **attempt** | infinitive |  | the hopeless task |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Eventuality |
| 6 | **represent** | gerund | the hopeless task *not said here* | details *= detail* |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=Theme |
| 7 | **is** | present | details *= detail* |  |  |  |  | as Celts | tree rules |

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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.

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**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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