Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 156
Connachar came out in haste and cried with wrath: "Who is there on the floor of fight, slaughtering my men?"
Who acts: Connachar · What happens: come out, cry, be, slaughter · To what, where: haste, floor, men · 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), 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 | Connachar | Connachar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 haste | case |
| 5 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 cried | cc |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 wrath | case |
| 9 | wrath | wrath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 there | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 there | punct |
| 12 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 there | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 there | cop |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 cried | parataxis |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 floor | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 floor | det |
| 17 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 there | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 fight | case |
| 19 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 floor | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 slaughtering | punct |
| 21 | slaughtering | slaughter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 cried | advcl |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 men | nmod:poss |
| 23 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 slaughtering | obj |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 21 slaughtering | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 slaughtering | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | past | Connachar | haste | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Connachar not said here | with wrath | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the floor of fight | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | slaughter in a quote | gerund | Connachar not said here | my men | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=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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