Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 117
O Naois, son of Uisnech, hear, What was shown in a dream to me.
Who acts: Naois · What happens: hear, show
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 (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 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 8 hear | discourse |
| 2 | Naois | Naois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 hear | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 son | punct |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Naois | appos |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Uisnech | case |
| 6 | Uisnech | Uisnech | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hear | punct |
| 8 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 shown | punct |
| 10 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 shown | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 shown | aux:pass |
| 12 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 hear | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 dream | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 dream | det |
| 15 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shown | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 me | case |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 dream | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | infinitive | Naois | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | show | past · passive | in a dream to me | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: subject=Patient in dream=Topic |
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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