Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 176

"Though that be good, O Duanan, it will not make the heroes return," said Connachar; "they are gone without regard for me, and without honour to me, and without power on my part to pursue them or to force them to return this night."

Who acts: that, sea, heroes, Connachar, power · What happens: be, not make, return, say, pursue, force · To what, where: heroes · 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 (that, sea, heroes, Connachar), 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	_	13 make	punct
2	Though	though	SCONJ	_	5 good	mark
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 good	nsubj
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 good	cop
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 make	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Duanan	punct
7	O	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	8 Duanan	case
8	Duanan	Duanan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 good	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 good	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 make	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 make	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 make	advmod
13	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 said	ccomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 heroes	det
15	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 return	nsubj
16	return	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 make	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 return	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 make	punct
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	Connachar	Connachar	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 said	nsubj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 gone	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 gone	punct
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 gone	nsubj
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 gone	cop
25	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 said	parataxis
26	without	without	ADP	_	27 regard	case
27	regard	regard	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 gone	obl
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 me	case
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 gone	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 pursue	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 pursue	cc
32	without	without	ADP	_	33 honour	case
33	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 pursue	obl
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 me	case
35	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 honour	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 power	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 power	cc
38	without	without	ADP	_	39 power	case
39	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 pursue	nsubj
40	on	on	ADP	_	42 part	case
41	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 part	nmod:poss
42	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 power	nmod
43	to	to	PART	_	44 pursue	mark
44	pursue	pursue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 gone	parataxis
45	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 pursue	obj
46	or	or	CCONJ	_	48 force	cc
47	to	to	PART	_	48 force	mark
48	force	force	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 pursue	conj
49	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 force	obj
50	to	to	PART	_	51 return	mark
51	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 force	xcomp
52	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	53 night	det
53	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 return	obl:unmarked
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
55	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	infinitive	that			of Duanan; good property	tree rules
2	not make in a quote	future	sea				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material
3	return in a quote	present	the heroes				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	Connachar				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	is in a quote	present	heroes = hero			without regard; for Connachar; go property	tree rules
6	pursue in a quote	to-infinitive	power on my part	heroes = hero		without honour to me	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
7	force in a quote	to-infinitive	power on my part not said here	heroes = hero			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
8	return in a quote	to-infinitive	heroes = hero not said here		night		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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