Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 121
"The day that Connachar sent the invitation to his feast will be unlucky for us if we don't go, O Deirdre."
Who acts: Connachar, day, we · What happens: send, be, not go · To what, where: invitation, feast
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 (Connachar, day, we), 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 | _ | 14 unlucky | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 unlucky | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 sent | mark |
| 5 | Connachar | Connachar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sent | nsubj |
| 6 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 day | acl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 invitation | det |
| 8 | invitation | invitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sent | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 feast | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 feast | nmod:poss |
| 11 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 invitation | nmod |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 unlucky | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 unlucky | cop |
| 14 | unlucky | unlucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 us | case |
| 16 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 unlucky | obl |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 go | mark |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 go | nsubj |
| 19 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 go | aux |
| 20 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 go | advmod |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 unlucky | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Deirdre | punct |
| 23 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 24 Deirdre | case |
| 24 | Deirdre | Deirdre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 go | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 unlucky | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 unlucky | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send in a quote | past | Connachar | the invitation | Connachar's feast | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent invitation=Theme to feast=Destination | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | future | the day | for us; unlucky property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not go a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · do-support | we | of Deirdre | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of deirdre=Initial_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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