Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 107
He did so; and Connachar said to Ferchar, "Tell Naois, son of Uisnech, that I am setting forth a great and gleeful feast to my friends and kinspeople throughout the wide extent of Erin all, and that I shall not have rest by day nor sleep by night if he and Allen and Arden be not partakers of the feast."
Who acts: Connachar · What happens: do, say, tell, set, not rest, not be · To what, where: Ferchar, Naois, son, great feast, wide extent, partakers · 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), 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 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 2 did | advmod |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 6 | Connachar | Connachar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | parataxis |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Ferchar | case |
| 9 | Ferchar | Ferchar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Tell | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Tell | punct |
| 12 | Tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 13 | Naois | Naois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Tell | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 son | punct |
| 15 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Tell | iobj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Uisnech | case |
| 17 | Uisnech | Uisnech | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 son | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 setting | punct |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 setting | mark |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 setting | nsubj |
| 21 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 setting | aux |
| 22 | setting | set | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 Tell | conj |
| 23 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 22 setting | advmod |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 feast | det |
| 25 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 feast | amod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 gleeful | cc |
| 27 | gleeful | gleeful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 great | conj |
| 28 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 setting | obj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 friends | case |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 friends | nmod:poss |
| 31 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 feast | nmod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 kinspeople | cc |
| 33 | kinspeople | kinspeople | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 friends | conj |
| 34 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 37 extent | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 extent | det |
| 36 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 extent | amod |
| 37 | extent | extent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 setting | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 Erin | case |
| 39 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 extent | nmod |
| 40 | all | all | ADV | _ | 22 setting | advmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 rest | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 rest | cc |
| 43 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 48 rest | mark |
| 44 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 48 rest | nsubj |
| 45 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 48 rest | aux |
| 46 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 48 rest | advmod |
| 47 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 48 rest | aux |
| 48 | rest | rest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 said | conj |
| 49 | by | by | ADP | _ | 50 day | case |
| 50 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 rest | obl |
| 51 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 52 sleep | cc |
| 52 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 day | conj |
| 53 | by | by | ADP | _ | 54 night | case |
| 54 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 rest | obl |
| 55 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 63 partakers | mark |
| 56 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 63 partakers | nsubj |
| 57 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 58 Allen | cc |
| 58 | Allen | Allen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 56 he | conj |
| 59 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 60 Arden | cc |
| 60 | Arden | Arden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 58 Allen | conj |
| 61 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 63 partakers | cop |
| 62 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 63 partakers | advmod |
| 63 | partakers | partaker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 rest | advcl |
| 64 | of | of | ADP | _ | 66 feast | case |
| 65 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 66 feast | det |
| 66 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 63 partakers | nmod |
| 67 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| 68 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Connachar | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Connachar | Ferchar | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to ferchar=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | Naois | son of Uisnech | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent son=Recipient naois=Topic | ||||
| 4 | set in a quote | present · progressive | Connachar | a great feast | the wide extent of Erin | to my friends and kinspeople; all, forth property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent feast=Theme throughout extent=Destination | ||
| 5 | not rest in a quote | shall · perfect | Connachar | day; night | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | not is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | infinitive | Connachar | partakers | of the feast | tree rules | |||
| 7 | extend in a quote | Erin | nom extent «state transitive»: of=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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