Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 185

Allen was not long when the weakness of death came on him and his hold failed.

Who acts: Allen, weakness, hold, Arden · What happens: not be, come, fail, hold

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 (Allen, weakness, hold, 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	Allen	Allen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 long	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 long	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 came	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 weakness	det
7	weakness	weakness	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 came	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 death	case
9	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 weakness	nmod
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 long	advcl
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 came	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 failed	cc
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 hold	nmod:poss
15	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 failed	nsubj
16	failed	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 came	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 long	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not is	past	Allen	long property	tree rules
2	come	past	the weakness of death	on Arden	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on he=Location
3	fail	past	Arden's hold		vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hold		Arden		nom hold «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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