Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 177
"We shall try another method on them, since yon one did not stop them," said the druid.
Who acts: We, yon, druid · What happens: try, not stop, say · To what, where: method, 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 (We, yon, druid), 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 | _ | 4 try | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 try | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 try | aux |
| 4 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 said | ccomp |
| 5 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 method | det |
| 6 | method | method | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 try | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 method | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stop | punct |
| 10 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 15 stop | mark |
| 11 | yon | yon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stop | nsubj |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 yon | flat |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 stop | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 stop | advmod |
| 15 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 try | parataxis |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 stop | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stop | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 try | punct |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 druid | det |
| 21 | druid | druid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 said | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try in a quote | shall | We | another method | on heroes = hero | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent method=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | not stop in a quote | past · do-support | yon | heroes = hero | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality they=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the druid | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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