Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shepherd of Myddvai, sentence 17
Of course he deemed that this could never be; and she, summoning from the lake three cows, two oxen, and a bull, as her marriage portion, was led homeward by him as his bride.
Who acts: shepherd, Myddvai · What happens: deem, not summon, lead · To what, where: lake, homeward
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Shepherd of Myddvai. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shepherd, Myddvai), 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 | Of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 4 deemed | advmod |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Of | fixed |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 deemed | nsubj |
| 4 | deemed | deem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 could | mark |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 could | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 deemed | advcl |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 summoning | advmod |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 summoning | aux |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 summoning | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 summoning | cc |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 summoning | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 summoning | punct |
| 14 | summoning | summon | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 could | advcl |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 lake | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 lake | det |
| 17 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 summoning | obl |
| 18 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 cows | nummod |
| 19 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 lake | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 oxen | punct |
| 21 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 oxen | nummod |
| 22 | oxen | ox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 cows | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 bull | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 bull | cc |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 bull | det |
| 26 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lake | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 portion | punct |
| 28 | as | as | ADP | _ | 31 portion | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 portion | nmod:poss |
| 30 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 portion | compound |
| 31 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 summoning | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 led | punct |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 led | aux:pass |
| 34 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 portion | acl |
| 35 | homeward | homeward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 led | xcomp |
| 36 | by | by | ADP | _ | 37 him | case |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 led | obl |
| 38 | as | as | ADP | _ | 40 bride | case |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 bride | nmod:poss |
| 40 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 led | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 deemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deem | past | shepherd | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not summon | infinitive · progressive | Myddvai | the lake and three cows and two oxen and a bull | as Myddvai's marriage portion | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | lead | past · passive | shepherd | homeward | as shepherd's bride | vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as bride=Attribute |
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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