Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 105
He sent word far and wide through Erin all to his kinspeople to come to the feast.
Who acts: Connachar · What happens: send, come · To what, where: word, Erin, feast
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sent | obj |
| 4 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 sent | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 wide | cc |
| 6 | wide | wide | ADV | _ | 4 far | conj |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 Erin | case |
| 8 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sent | obl |
| 9 | all | all | ADV | _ | 12 kinspeople | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 kinspeople | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 kinspeople | nmod:poss |
| 12 | kinspeople | kinspeople | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sent | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 come | mark |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 sent | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 feast | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 feast | det |
| 17 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 come | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | Connachar | word | Erin | to Connachar's kinspeople; far property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent word=Theme to kinspeople=Destination | ||
| 2 | come | to-infinitive | Connachar not said here | the feast | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to feast=Initial_Location |
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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