Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 153
"Yes, but I will myself go out and stop the pursuit," said Naois.
Who acts: Naois · What happens: go out, stop, say · To what, where: pursuit · 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 (Naois), 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 | _ | 8 go | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 go | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 go | cc |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 go | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 go | aux |
| 7 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 go | nsubj |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 9 | out | out | ADV | _ | 8 go | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 stop | cc |
| 11 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 go | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 pursuit | det |
| 13 | pursuit | pursuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stop | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | Naois | Naois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out in a quote | future | Naois | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | stop in a quote | infinitive | Naois not said here | the pursuit | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality pursuit=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Naois | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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