Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 106
Connachar thought to himself that Naois would not come though he should bid him; and the scheme that arose in his mind was to send for his father's brother, Ferchar Mac Ro, and to send him on an embassy to Naois.
Who acts: Connachar, Naois, scheme · What happens: think, not come, bid, arise, be, send · To what, where: Connachar, teacher, mind, Naois, embassy · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Naois, scheme), 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 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 himself | case |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 thought | obl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 come | mark |
| 6 | Naois | Naois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 come | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 come | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 come | advmod |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 thought | ccomp |
| 10 | though | though | ADV | _ | 13 bid | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 bid | nsubj |
| 12 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 bid | aux |
| 13 | bid | bid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 come | advcl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 bid | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 send | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 send | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 scheme | det |
| 18 | scheme | scheme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 send | nsubj |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 arose | nsubj |
| 20 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 scheme | acl:relcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 mind | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 mind | nmod:poss |
| 23 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 arose | obl |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 send | cop |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 send | mark |
| 26 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 thought | parataxis |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 brother | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 father | nmod:poss |
| 29 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 brother | nmod:poss |
| 30 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 29 father | case |
| 31 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 send | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Mac | punct |
| 33 | Ferchar | Ferchar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Mac | compound |
| 34 | Mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 brother | appos |
| 35 | Ro | Ro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Mac | flat |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 send | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 send | cc |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 send | mark |
| 39 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 send | conj |
| 40 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 send | obj |
| 41 | on | on | ADP | _ | 43 embassy | case |
| 42 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 embassy | det |
| 43 | embassy | embassy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 send | obl |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 Naois | case |
| 45 | Naois | Naois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 send | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Connachar | Connachar | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not come | would | Naois | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bid | should | Connachar | teacher | though property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | arise | past | the scheme | Connachar's mind | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mind=Location | ||||
| 5 | is | past | the scheme | for Connachar's father's brother; send property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | send | to-infinitive | the scheme not said here | Connachar | Naois | a embassy | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to naois=Destination | ||
| 7 | 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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