Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 192

And Duanan Gacha Druid dried up the flood from the plain and the three sons of Uisnech were lying together dead, without breath of life, side by side on the green meadow plain and Deirdre bending above showering down her tears.

Who acts: Duanan Gacha, three sons, green meadow plain · What happens: dry up, lie, bend, shower down · To what, where: flood, plain, tears

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 (Duanan Gacha, three sons, green meadow plain), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 dried	cc
2	Duanan	Duanan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Gacha	compound
3	Gacha	Gacha	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 dried	nsubj
4	Druid	Druid	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Gacha	flat
5	dried	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 dried	compound:prt
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 flood	det
8	flood	flood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dried	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 plain	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 plain	det
11	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lying	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sons	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sons	det
14	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 sons	nummod
15	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 lying	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 Uisnech	case
17	Uisnech	Uisnech	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 sons	nmod
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 lying	aux
19	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 dried	advcl
20	together	together	ADV	_	19 lying	advmod
21	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 lying	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 breath	punct
23	without	without	ADP	_	24 breath	case
24	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lying	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 life	case
26	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 breath	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 side	punct
28	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 breath	conj
29	by	by	ADP	_	30 side	case
30	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 side	nmod
31	on	on	ADP	_	35 plain	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 plain	det
33	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 plain	amod
34	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 plain	compound
35	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 side	nmod
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 Deirdre	cc
37	Deirdre	Deirdre	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 plain	conj
38	bending	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 plain	acl
39	above	above	ADP	_	40 showering	mark
40	showering	shower	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 bending	advcl
41	down	down	ADP	_	43 tears	case
42	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 tears	nmod:poss
43	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 showering	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 dried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dry up	past	Duanan Gacha	the flood			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient flood=Result
2	lie	past · progressive	the three sons of Uisnech		the plain	without breath of life and side by side on the green meadow plain and Deirdre; dead, together property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	bend	gerund	the green meadow plain and Deirdre not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	shower down	gerund	the green meadow plain and Deirdre not said here	Gacha's tears			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tear=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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