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title: M. Luzel, _e.g._, was commissioned by the French Minister of Public… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Notes and References, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 76

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M. Luzel, \_e.g.\_, was commissioned by the French Minister of Public Instruction to collect and report on the Breton folk-tales.

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**Who acts:** French Minister · **What happens:** commission, collect, report · **To what, where:** M., Breton folk tales

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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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**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:pg7885:34:76
# text = M. Luzel, _e.g._, was commissioned by the French Minister of Public Instruction to collect and report on the Breton folk-tales.
1	M.	M.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	Luzel	Luzel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	e.g.	e.g.	ADV	FW	_	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	commissioned	commission	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Minister	Minister	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	Public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Instruction	instruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	collect	collect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	report	report	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
23	Breton	Breton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
24	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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