Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 108
Ferchar Mac Ro and his three sons went on their journey, and reached the tower where Naois was dwelling by the side of Loch Etive.
Who acts: Ferchar, Naois · What happens: go, reach, dwell, journey · To what, where: journey, tower
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 (Ferchar, Naois), 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 | Ferchar | Ferchar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 went | nsubj |
| 2 | Mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ferchar | flat |
| 3 | Ro | Ro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ferchar | flat |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sons | cc |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sons | nmod:poss |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 sons | nummod |
| 7 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Ferchar | conj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 journey | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 journey | nmod:poss |
| 11 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 reached | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 reached | cc |
| 14 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 tower | det |
| 16 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 reached | obj |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 dwelling | advmod |
| 18 | Naois | Naois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 dwelling | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 dwelling | aux |
| 20 | dwelling | dwell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 tower | acl |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 side | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 side | det |
| 23 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dwelling | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Loch | case |
| 25 | Loch | Loch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 side | nmod |
| 26 | Etive | Etive | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Loch | flat |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Ferchar and Ferchar's three sons | Naois's journey | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on journey=Location | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | Ferchar and Ferchar's three sons not said here | the tower | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent tower=Theme | ||||
| 3 | dwell | past · progressive | Naois | by the side of Loch | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by side=Location | ||||
| 4 | journey | Naois | nom journey «act 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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