Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 186
Naois looked around, and when he saw his two well-beloved brothers dead, he cared not whether he lived or died, and he gave forth the bitter sigh of death, and his heart burst.
Who acts: Naois, hold · What happens: look around, see, not care, live, die, give · To what, where: two beloved brothers, bitter sigh, 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, hold), 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 | Naois | Naois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | around | around | ADV | _ | 2 looked | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 saw | cc |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 saw | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 brothers | nummod |
| 11 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 beloved | advmod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 well | punct |
| 13 | beloved | beloved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 brothers | amod |
| 14 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 saw | obj |
| 15 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 saw | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 cared | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 cared | nsubj |
| 18 | cared | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 cared | advmod |
| 20 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 22 lived | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 lived | nsubj |
| 22 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 cared | advcl |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 died | cc |
| 24 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 lived | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 gave | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 gave | cc |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 gave | nsubj |
| 28 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 29 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 28 gave | advmod |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 sigh | det |
| 31 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 sigh | amod |
| 32 | sigh | sigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 gave | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 death | case |
| 34 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 sigh | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 burst | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 burst | cc |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 burst | nmod:poss |
| 38 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 burst | compound |
| 39 | burst | burst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 gave | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look around | past | Naois | around property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | see | past | hold | hold's two beloved brothers | dead property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brother=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | not care | past | hold | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | live | past | hold | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | die | past | hold not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 6 | give | past | hold | the bitter sigh of death | hold's heart burst obl; forth property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sigh=Theme | |||
| 7 | sigh | death | nom sigh «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 8 | burst | hold | nom burst «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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