Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 128
Deirdre was unwilling to leave Alba, but she went with Naois.
Who acts: Deirdre, Alba · What happens: be, leave, go · To what, where: Alba
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, Alba), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7885:725): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Deirdre | Deirdre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 unwilling | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 unwilling | cop |
| 3 | unwilling | unwilling | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 leave | mark |
| 5 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 unwilling | xcomp |
| 6 | Alba | Alba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 leave | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 unwilling | conj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 Naois | case |
| 12 | Naois | Naois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 unwilling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Deirdre | unwilling property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leave | to-infinitive | Deirdre not said here | Alba | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alba=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | past | Alba | with Naois | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with naois=Beneficiary |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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