Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 129

Deirdre wept tears in showers and she sang:

Who acts: Deirdre, Alba · What happens: weep, sing · To what, where: tears, showers

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.

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	Deirdre	Deirdre	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 wept	nsubj
2	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wept	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 showers	case
5	showers	shower	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wept	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sang	cc
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sang	nsubj
8	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wept	conj
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 wept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weep	past	Deirdre	tears		showers			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tear=Theme
2	sing speech: express	past	Alba						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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