Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 187
"They are gone," said Duanan Gacha Druid to the king, "and I have done what you desired me.
Who acts: Naois, Duanan · What happens: be, say, do · To what, where: Duanan · 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, Duanan), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 gone | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | cop |
| 4 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 gone | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 gone | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Duanan | Duanan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | Gacha | Gacha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Duanan | flat |
| 10 | Druid | druid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Duanan | list |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 king | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Druid | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Duanan | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Duanan | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 done | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 done | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 done | aux |
| 19 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 said | ccomp |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 desired | obj |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 desired | nsubj |
| 22 | desired | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 done | aux:pass |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 desired | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Naois | gone property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Duanan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | present · passive | Duanan | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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