Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 180
Come you, Arden, and sit on my right shoulder," said Naois.
Who acts: Naois · What happens: come, sit, say · To what, where: you, right shoulder · 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 (Naois), 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 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 1 Come | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Arden | punct |
| 4 | Arden | Arden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Come | vocative |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sit | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sit | cc |
| 7 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Come | parataxis |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 shoulder | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 10 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 shoulder | amod |
| 11 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sit | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sit | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 sit | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | Naois | Naois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | infinitive | you | Arden vocative | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location you=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sit | present | my right shoulder | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shoulder=Location | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Naois | 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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