Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 159
"Well, Connachar, we will not accept that offer from you nor thank you for it.
Who acts: we · What happens: not accept, thank · To what, where: offer, you
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 (we), 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 | _ | 9 accept | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 9 accept | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Connachar | punct |
| 4 | Connachar | Connachar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Well | vocative |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 accept | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 accept | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 accept | advmod |
| 9 | accept | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 offer | det |
| 11 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 accept | obj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 you | case |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 accept | obl |
| 14 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 15 thank | cc |
| 15 | thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 accept | conj |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 thank | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 thank | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 accept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not accept in a quote | future | we | that offer | from you | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent offer=Theme from you=Source | |||
| 2 | thank speech: thank in a quote | present | we not said here | you | for offer | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent you=Theme for it=Attribute |
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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