Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 114
"I saw a vision, Naois, and do you interpret it to me," said Deirdre--then she sang:
Who acts: Deirdre, you, scheme · What happens: see, interpret, say, sing · To what, where: vision, Deirdre · 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, you, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | ccomp |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 vision | det |
| 5 | vision | vision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Naois | punct |
| 7 | Naois | Naois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 vision | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 interpret | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 interpret | cc |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 interpret | aux |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 interpret | nsubj |
| 12 | interpret | interpret | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 saw | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 interpret | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 interpret | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | Deirdre | Deirdre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 said | nsubj |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 sang | punct |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 sang | advmod |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 sang | nsubj |
| 23 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | conj |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 sang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | past | Deirdre | a vision | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vision=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | interpret in a quote | present · do-support | you | vision | Deirdre | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme to i=be' | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Deirdre | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | past | scheme | then | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
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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