Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 149

But of a truth and verity, although he put out even my eye, it were my desire still to remain looking at her with the other eye, were it not for the hurry you told me to be in," said Gelban.

Who acts: Connachar, verity, you, hurry · What happens: put out, be, remain, look, not be, tell · To what, where: eye, desire, hurry, me · 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, verity, you, hurry), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	10 put	cc
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 truth	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 truth	det
4	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 put	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 verity	cc
6	verity	verity	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 truth	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 put	punct
8	although	although	SCONJ	_	10 put	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 put	nsubj
10	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 put	compound:prt
12	even	even	ADV	_	14 eye	advmod
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 eye	nmod:poss
14	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 put	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 desire	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 desire	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 desire	cop
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 desire	nmod:poss
19	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 put	obl
20	still	still	ADV	_	10 put	advmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 remain	mark
22	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 put	advcl
23	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 remain	xcomp
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 her	case
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 looking	obl
26	with	with	ADP	_	29 eye	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 eye	det
28	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 eye	amod
29	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 looking	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 hurry	punct
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 hurry	cop
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 hurry	nsubj
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 hurry	advmod
34	for	for	ADP	_	36 hurry	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 hurry	det
36	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 said	nsubj
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 told	nsubj
38	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 hurry	acl:relcl
39	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 told	iobj
40	to	to	PART	_	42 in	mark
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 in	cop
42	in	in	ADV	_	38 told	advmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 in	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 told	punct
45	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 put	conj
46	Gelban	Gelban	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 said	nsubj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	put out	past	Connachar	my eye		still	of a truth and verity	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	verity	my desire				tree rules
3	remain	to-infinitive	Connachar not said here					tree rules
4	look	gerund	Connachar not said here				at eye; with the other eye	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme
5	not is	past	verity				for the hurry	tree rules
6	tell speech: assert	past	you	the hurry not said here	me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
7	is	to-infinitive					in property	tree rules
8	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the hurry					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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