Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 165

This happened at the parting of the day and night in the morning twilight time, and Naois said they must go away, leave that house, and return to Alba.

Who acts: This, Naois, day · What happens: happen, say, go away, leave, return, part · To what, where: parting, house, Alba · 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 (This, Naois, day), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 parting	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 parting	det
5	parting	parting	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 happened	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 day	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 parting	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 night	cc
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 day	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	15 time	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 time	det
13	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 twilight	compound
14	twilight	twilight	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 time	compound
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 night	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
18	Naois	Naois	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 happened	parataxis
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 go	nsubj
21	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 go	aux
22	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 said	ccomp
23	away	away	ADV	_	22 go	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 leave	punct
25	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 go	conj
26	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 house	det
27	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 leave	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 return	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 return	cc
30	return	return	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	22 go	parataxis
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 Alba	case
32	Alba	Alba	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 return	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	happen	past	This			the parting of the day and night in the twilight time		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at parting=Location
2	say speech: assert	past	Naois					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go away	must	Naois				away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	leave	infinitive	Naois not said here	that house				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme
5	return	infinitive			Alba			vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to alba=Result
6	part		the day and night in the twilight time					nom parting «act intransitive»: of=agent

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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