Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 184

When Naois heard his prayer, he gave forth the piercing sigh of death, and asked Allen to lay hold of him and he would bring him to land.

Who acts: Naois, Arden · What happens: hear, give, pierce, ask, lay, bring · To what, where: prayer, piercing sigh, Allen, hold, house, death

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, Arden), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 heard	advmod
2	Naois	Naois	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 heard	nsubj
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 gave	advcl
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 prayer	nmod:poss
5	prayer	prayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heard	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gave	nsubj
8	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	forth	forth	ADV	_	8 gave	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sigh	det
11	piercing	pierce	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 sigh	amod
12	sigh	sigh	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gave	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 death	case
14	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sigh	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 asked	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 asked	cc
17	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 gave	conj
18	Allen	Allen	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 asked	iobj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 lay	mark
20	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 asked	xcomp
21	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lay	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 hold	nmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 bring	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 bring	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 bring	aux
27	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 lay	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 bring	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 land	mark
30	land	land	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 bring	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Naois	Arden's prayer			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer prayer=Stimulus
2	give	past	Arden	the piercing sigh of death		forth property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sigh=Theme
3	pierce	gerund					vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	ask speech: ask	past	Arden not said here		Allen		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent allen=Recipient clause=Topic
5	lay not said to happen	to-infinitive	Arden not said here	hold of Arden			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Result
6	bring	would	Arden	house			tree rules
7	land	to-infinitive	Arden not said here				vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	pray		Arden				nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent
9	sigh			death			nom sigh «communication transitive»: of=patient
10	hold			Arden			nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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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