Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 113
But Deirdre did not wish to go with Ferchar Mac Ro, and she tried every prayer to turn Naois from going with him--she said:
Who acts: Deirdre, scheme · What happens: not wish, go, try, turn, say · To what, where: prayer, Naois · 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 (Deirdre, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 wish | cc |
| 2 | Deirdre | Deirdre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 wish | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wish | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 wish | advmod |
| 5 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 said | parataxis |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 go | mark |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wish | xcomp |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 Ro | case |
| 9 | Ferchar | Ferchar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Ro | compound |
| 10 | Mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Ro | compound |
| 11 | Ro | Ro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tried | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 tried | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 tried | nsubj |
| 15 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wish | conj |
| 16 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 prayer | det |
| 17 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tried | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 turn | mark |
| 19 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 tried | xcomp |
| 20 | Naois | Naois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 turn | obj |
| 21 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 22 going | mark |
| 22 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 turn | advcl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 going | obl |
| 25 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 said | punct |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 said | nsubj |
| 27 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 28 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wish | past · do-support | Deirdre | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | Deirdre not said here | with Ferchar Mac Ro | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with ro=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | try | past | scheme | every prayer | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | turn not said to happen | to-infinitive | scheme not said here | Naois | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme naois=Result | ||||
| 5 | go | gerund | scheme not said here | with son | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | scheme | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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