Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 109
The sons of Uisnech gave a cordial kindly welcome to Ferchar Mac Ro and his three sons, and asked of him the news of Erin. "
Who acts: sons · What happens: give, ask · To what, where: news
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 (sons), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sons | det |
| 2 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Uisnech | case |
| 4 | Uisnech | Uisnech | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sons | nmod |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 gave | flat:foreign |
| 7 | cordial | cordial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 a | conj |
| 8 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 9 welcome | advmod |
| 9 | welcome | welcome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cordial | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Ro | case |
| 11 | Ferchar | Ferchar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Ro | compound |
| 12 | Mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Ro | compound |
| 13 | Ro | Ro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 welcome | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sons | cc |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 sons | nmod:poss |
| 16 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 sons | nummod |
| 17 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Ro | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 asked | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 asked | cc |
| 20 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gave | parataxis |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 asked | obl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 news | det |
| 24 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 asked | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Erin | case |
| 26 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 news | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gave | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the sons of Uisnech | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the news of Erin | of son | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent news=Recipient |
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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