Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 103
Connachar made up his mind to take Deirdre away by the sword whether she was married to Naois or not.
Who acts: Connachar · What happens: make up, take away, marry, mind · To what, where: mind, Deirdre, end, Naois
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 (Connachar), 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 | Connachar | Connachar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 made | compound:prt |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 mind | nmod:poss |
| 5 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 take | mark |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 made | advcl |
| 8 | Deirdre | Deirdre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obj |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 take | advmod |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 sword | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sword | det |
| 12 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obl |
| 13 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 16 married | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 married | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 married | aux:pass |
| 16 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 take | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Naois | case |
| 18 | Naois | Naois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 married | obl |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 not | cc |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 married | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up | past | Connachar | Connachar's mind | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | take away | to-infinitive | Connachar not said here | Deirdre | by the sword; away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deirdre=Theme | |||
| 3 | marry | past · passive | end | Naois | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to naois=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | mind | Connachar | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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