Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 102
By this time the end of the period came at which Deirdre had to marry Connachar, King of Ulster.
Who acts: end, Deirdre · What happens: come, have, marry · To what, where: Connachar
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of Deirdre. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (end, Deirdre), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 end | det |
| 5 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 period | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 period | det |
| 8 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 end | nmod |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 had | obl |
| 12 | Deirdre | Deirdre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 had | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 marry | mark |
| 15 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 had | xcomp |
| 16 | Connachar | Connachar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 marry | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 King | punct |
| 18 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Connachar | appos |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Ulster | case |
| 20 | Ulster | Ulster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 King | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the end of the period | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Deirdre | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | marry | to-infinitive | Deirdre not said here | Connachar | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent connachar=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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