Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 15
"Well," said the soothsayer, "I saw in my second sight that it is on account of a daughter of yours that the greatest amount of blood shall be shed that has ever been shed in Erin since time and race began.
Who acts: soothsayer, time, my · What happens: say, see, be, shed, begin, sight · To what, where: second sight, account, greatest amount, that, Erin, blood · 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 (soothsayer, time, my), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 soothsayer | det |
| 7 | soothsayer | soothsayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 saw | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 saw | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | parataxis |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 sight | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 sight | nmod:poss |
| 14 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 sight | amod |
| 15 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | obl |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 account | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 account | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 account | cop |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 account | case |
| 20 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | ccomp |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 daughter | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 daughter | det |
| 23 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 account | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 yours | case |
| 25 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 daughter | nmod |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 shed | mark |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 amount | det |
| 28 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 29 amount | amod |
| 29 | amount | amount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 shed | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 blood | case |
| 31 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 amount | nmod |
| 32 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 shed | aux |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 shed | aux:pass |
| 34 | shed | shed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 saw | conj |
| 35 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 shed | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 shed | aux |
| 37 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 39 shed | advmod |
| 38 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 39 shed | aux:pass |
| 39 | shed | shed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 shed | ccomp |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 Erin | case |
| 41 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 shed | obl |
| 42 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 46 began | mark |
| 43 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 began | nsubj |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 race | cc |
| 45 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 time | conj |
| 46 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 shed | advcl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the soothsayer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | see in a quote | past | the soothsayer = soothsayer | my second sight | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | soothsayer | account | of a daughter of yours | tree rules | |||
| 4 | shed in a quote | shall · passive | the greatest amount of blood | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | shed in a quote | present · perfect · passive | that | Erin | ever | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Source | |||
| 6 | begin in a quote | past | time and race | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | sight in a quote | my | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | amount in a quote | blood | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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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