Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 139
Gelban, the cheering and charming son of Lochlin's King, went down to the place of the strangers, where the sons of Uisnech and Deirdre were staying.
Who acts: Gelban, sons · What happens: cheer, charm, go down, stay
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 (Gelban, 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 | Gelban | Gelban | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 went | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 son | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 son | det |
| 4 | cheering | cheer | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 son | amod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 charming | cc |
| 6 | charming | charm | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 cheering | conj |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Gelban | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 King | case |
| 9 | Lochlin | Lochlin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 King | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Lochlin | case |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 son | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Gelban | punct |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | down | down | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 place | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 place | det |
| 17 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 strangers | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 strangers | det |
| 20 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 place | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 staying | punct |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 30 staying | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sons | det |
| 24 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 staying | nsubj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Uisnech | case |
| 26 | Uisnech | Uisnech | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 sons | nmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 Deirdre | cc |
| 28 | Deirdre | Deirdre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Uisnech | conj |
| 29 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 staying | aux |
| 30 | staying | stay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 strangers | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cheer | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | charm | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | go down | past | Gelban | to the place of the strangers; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | stay | past · progressive | the sons of Uisnech and Deirdre | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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