Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 161

Naois, son of Uisnech, and Allen and Arden are as nearly related to yourself as they are to us, though you are so keen to shed their blood, and you would shed our blood also, Connachar."

Who acts: Naois, you · What happens: be, shed · To what, where: yourself, us, blood

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, you), 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	Naois	Naois	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 related	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 son	punct
3	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Naois	appos
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Uisnech	case
5	Uisnech	Uisnech	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 son	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Allen	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Allen	cc
8	Allen	Allen	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Naois	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 Arden	cc
10	Arden	Arden	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Naois	conj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 related	cop
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 related	mark
13	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	14 related	advmod
14	related	related	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 yourself	case
16	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 related	obl
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 are	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 are	nsubj
19	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 related	advcl
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 us	case
21	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 are	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 keen	punct
23	though	though	SCONJ	_	27 keen	mark
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 keen	nsubj
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 keen	cop
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 keen	advmod
27	keen	keen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 related	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 shed	mark
29	shed	shed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 keen	xcomp
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 blood	nmod:poss
31	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 shed	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 shed	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 shed	cc
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 shed	nsubj
35	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 shed	aux
36	shed	shed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 related	conj
37	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 blood	nmod:poss
38	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 shed	obj
39	also	also	ADV	_	36 shed	advmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 Connachar	punct
41	Connachar	Connachar	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 shed	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 related	punct
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 related	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Naois and Allen and Arden		yourself	nearly, related property	tree rules
2	be	present	Naois		us		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	you			keen property	tree rules
4	shed	to-infinitive	you not said here	Naois's blood			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location blood=Source
5	shed	would	you	our blood		Connachar obl	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location blood=Source

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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