Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 122
"You will go there," said Ferchar Mac Ro; "and if Connachar show kindness to you, show ye kindness to him; and if he will display wrath towards you display ye wrath towards him, and I and my three sons will be with you."
Who acts: You, Ferchar Mac, Connachar, Naois · What happens: go, say, show, display, wrath, be · To what, where: kindness, you, ye, wrath · 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 (You, Ferchar Mac, Connachar, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 go | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | parataxis |
| 9 | Ferchar | Ferchar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Mac | compound |
| 10 | Mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | Ro | Ro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Mac | flat |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 show | cc |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 show | mark |
| 16 | Connachar | Connachar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 show | nsubj |
| 17 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 show | advcl |
| 18 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 show | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 you | case |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 show | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 show | punct |
| 22 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | conj |
| 23 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 show | iobj |
| 24 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 show | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 kindness | nmod |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 display | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 display | cc |
| 29 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 32 display | mark |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 display | nsubj |
| 31 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 display | aux |
| 32 | display | display | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 go | conj |
| 33 | wrath | wrath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 display | obj |
| 34 | towards | towards | SCONJ | _ | 36 display | mark |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 display | nsubj |
| 36 | display | display | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 display | advcl |
| 37 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 36 display | obj |
| 38 | wrath | wrath | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 display | xcomp |
| 39 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 40 him | case |
| 40 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 wrath | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 you | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 you | cc |
| 43 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 51 you | nsubj |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 sons | cc |
| 45 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 sons | nmod:poss |
| 46 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 47 sons | nummod |
| 47 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 I | conj |
| 48 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 51 you | aux |
| 49 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 51 you | cop |
| 50 | with | with | ADP | _ | 51 you | case |
| 51 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 go | parataxis |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 53 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | future | You | there | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Ferchar Mac | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | show a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | Connachar | kindness | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent kindness=Topic to you=Recipient | |||
| 4 | show in a quote | present | You not said here | kindness | ye | to Connachar | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient kindness=Topic | ||
| 5 | display a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | Connachar | wrath | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wrath=Theme | ||||
| 6 | display in a quote | present | you | ye | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | wrath in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | towards Connachar | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | is in a quote | future | Naois | with you | tree rules |
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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