Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 130
Dear is the land, the land over there, Alba full of woods and lakes; Bitter to my heart is leaving thee, But I go away with Naois.
Who acts: Bitter, I · What happens: be, leave, go away · To what, where: Dear land, thee
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 (Bitter, I), 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 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 land | amod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 land | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 land | det |
| 4 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 land | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 land | det |
| 7 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 land | appos |
| 8 | over | over | ADV | _ | 9 there | advmod |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 land | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 full | punct |
| 11 | Alba | Alba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 full | compound |
| 12 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 land | parataxis |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 woods | case |
| 14 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 full | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 lakes | cc |
| 16 | lakes | lake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 woods | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 leaving | punct |
| 18 | Bitter | bitter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 leaving | nsubj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 heart | case |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 heart | nmod:poss |
| 21 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Bitter | nmod |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 leaving | aux |
| 23 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 land | parataxis |
| 24 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 leaving | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 go | punct |
| 26 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 go | cc |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 go | nsubj |
| 28 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 leaving | conj |
| 29 | away | away | ADV | _ | 28 go | advmod |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 Naois | case |
| 31 | Naois | Naois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 go | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 land | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Dear land | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | leave | present · progressive | Bitter to my heart | thee | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go away | present | I | with Naois; away property | 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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