Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 182

Arden was long in this posture when he died; but though he was dead Naois would not let him go.

Who acts: Arden, dead Naois · What happens: be, die, not let, go · To what, where: posture, Arden

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 (Arden, dead 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	Arden	Arden	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 long	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 long	cop
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 posture	case
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 posture	det
6	posture	posture	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 long	obl
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 died	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 died	nsubj
9	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 posture	acl:relcl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 let	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 let	cc
12	though	though	SCONJ	_	15 dead	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 dead	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 dead	cop
15	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Naois	amod
16	Naois	Naois	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 let	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 let	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 let	advmod
19	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 long	parataxis
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 let	obj
21	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 let	xcomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 long	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Arden		this posture	long property	tree rules
2	die	past	Arden				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	is	past	Arden			dead property	tree rules
4	not let	would	dead Naois	Arden			tree rules
5	go	infinitive	Arden not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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