Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 168

The king then sent for Duanan Gacha Druid, the best magician he had, and he spoke to him as follows:--"Much wealth have I expended on you, Duanan Gacha Druid, to give schooling and learning and magic mystery to you, if these people get away from me today without care, without consideration or regard for me, without chance of overtaking them, and without power to stop them."

Who acts: king, Duanan, people, chance · What happens: send, have, speak, follow, expend, give · To what, where: best magician, word, Much wealth, schooling, King · 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 (king, Duanan, people, chance), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	nsubj
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 sent	advmod
4	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 Duanan	case
6	Duanan	Duanan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sent	obl
7	Gacha	Gacha	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Duanan	flat
8	Druid	Druid	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Duanan	flat
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 magician	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 magician	det
11	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 magician	amod
12	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Duanan	appos
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 magician	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 spoke	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 spoke	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 spoke	nsubj
18	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sent	conj
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 spoke	obl
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 follows	mark
22	follows	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 spoke	advcl
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 sent	punct
24	--	--	PUNCT	_	30 expended	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 wealth	punct
26	Much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 wealth	amod
27	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 expended	nsubj:pass
28	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 expended	aux
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 expended	nsubj
30	expended	expend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 sent	parataxis
31	on	on	ADP	_	32 you	case
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 expended	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 Duanan	punct
34	Duanan	Duanan	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 expended	obl:agent
35	Gacha	Gacha	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Duanan	flat
36	Druid	Druid	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Duanan	flat
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 give	punct
38	to	to	PART	_	39 give	mark
39	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 expended	conj
40	schooling	schooling	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 give	obj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 learning	cc
42	learning	learning	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 schooling	conj
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 mystery	cc
44	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 mystery	amod
45	mystery	mystery	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 schooling	conj
46	to	to	ADP	_	47 you	case
47	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 give	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 get	punct
49	if	if	SCONJ	_	52 get	mark
50	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	51 people	det
51	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 get	nsubj
52	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 give	parataxis
53	away	away	ADV	_	52 get	advmod
54	from	from	ADP	_	55 me	case
55	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	52 get	obl
56	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 get	obl:unmarked
57	without	without	ADP	_	58 care	case
58	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 give	obl
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 consideration	punct
60	without	without	ADP	_	61 consideration	case
61	consideration	consideration	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 give	obl
62	or	or	CCONJ	_	63 regard	cc
63	regard	regard	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 consideration	conj
64	for	for	ADP	_	65 me	case
65	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	61 consideration	nmod
66	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 chance	punct
67	without	without	ADP	_	68 chance	case
68	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 give	obl
69	of	of	SCONJ	_	70 overtaking	mark
70	overtaking	overtake	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	68 chance	acl
71	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	70 overtaking	obj
72	,	,	PUNCT	_	75 power	punct
73	and	and	CCONJ	_	75 power	cc
74	without	without	ADP	_	75 power	case
75	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	parataxis
76	to	to	PART	_	77 stop	mark
77	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	75 power	acl
78	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	77 stop	obj
79	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sent	punct
80	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	the king			then	for Duanan	tree rules
2	have	past	Duanan	the best magician not said here				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magician=Patient
3	speak speech: other	past	Duanan		word			vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent
4	follow	present	Duanan not said here					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	expend in a quote	present · perfect · passive	Duanan	Much wealth			on word	tree rules
6	give in a quote	to-infinitive	Duanan not said here	schooling and learning and magic mystery	word		without care; without consideration for me or regard; without chance	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent schooling=Theme to you=Recipient
7	get away a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	this people			today	from Duanan; away property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from i=Source
8	overtake in a quote	gerund	chance not said here	King				tree rules
9	stop in a quote	to-infinitive	the king not said here	King				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality they=Eventuality

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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