Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 134

Well," said Connachar, "I did not expect that the sons of Uisnech would come, though I sent for them, and I am not quite ready to receive them.

Who acts: Connachar, I, sons · What happens: say, not expect, come, send, not be, receive · To what, where: King · 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 (Connachar, I, sons), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Connachar	Connachar	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 expect	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 expect	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 expect	nsubj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 expect	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 expect	advmod
11	expect	expect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	parataxis
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 come	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sons	det
14	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 come	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 Uisnech	case
16	Uisnech	Uisnech	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 sons	nmod
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 come	aux
18	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 expect	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sent	punct
20	though	though	SCONJ	_	22 sent	mark
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 sent	nsubj
22	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 come	conj
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 sent	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 ready	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 ready	cc
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 ready	nsubj
28	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 ready	cop
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 ready	advmod
30	quite	quite	ADV	_	31 ready	advmod
31	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 receive	mark
33	receive	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 ready	xcomp
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 receive	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Connachar			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not expect	past · do-support	I			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	come	would	the sons of Uisnech			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	send	past	I		for King	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	not is	present	I		ready property	tree rules
6	receive	to-infinitive	I not said here	King		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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