Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 172

They are off without bending of their feet or stopping of their step, without heed or respect to me, and I am without power to keep up to them or opportunity to turn them back this night."

Who acts: Deirdre, I · What happens: bend, stop, be, keep up, turn back, step · To what, where: Deirdre

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 (Deirdre, I), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bending	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bending	aux
3	off	off	ADV	_	5 bending	advmod
4	without	without	SCONJ	_	5 bending	mark
5	bending	bend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 feet	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 feet	nmod:poss
8	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bending	obl
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 stopping	cc
10	stopping	stop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 bending	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 step	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 step	nmod:poss
13	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stopping	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 heed	punct
15	without	without	ADP	_	16 heed	case
16	heed	heed	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stopping	obl
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 respect	cc
18	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 heed	conj
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 me	case
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 respect	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 power	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 power	cc
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 power	nsubj
24	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 power	cop
25	without	without	ADP	_	26 power	case
26	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bending	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 keep	mark
28	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 power	acl
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 keep	compound:prt
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 keep	obl
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 opportunity	cc
33	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 them	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 turn	mark
35	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 opportunity	acl
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 turn	obj
37	back	back	ADV	_	35 turn	advmod
38	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	39 night	det
39	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 turn	obl:unmarked
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 bending	punct
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 bending	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	bend	present · progressive	Deirdre				of Deirdre's feet; off property	vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of foot=Location
2	stop	gerund	Deirdre not said here				of Deirdre's step; without heed or respect to me	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	is	present	I				without power	tree rules
4	keep up	to-infinitive	Deirdre not said here		Deirdre			vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent
5	turn back	to-infinitive	Deirdre not said here	Deirdre		night		vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
6	step		Deirdre					nom step «act transitive»: poss=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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