Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 193
Then Deirdre said this lament: "Fair one, loved one, flower of beauty; beloved upright and strong; beloved noble and modest warrior.
Who acts: Deirdre, Fair one · What happens: say, love, belov · To what, where: lament, one · 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 (Deirdre, Fair one), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | Deirdre | Deirdre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 lament | det |
| 5 | lament | lament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 loved | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 one | punct |
| 8 | Fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 one | amod |
| 9 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 loved | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 one | punct |
| 11 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 loved | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 flower | punct |
| 14 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 loved | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 beauty | case |
| 16 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 flower | nmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 beloved | punct |
| 18 | beloved | belov | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 said | parataxis |
| 19 | upright | upright | ADV | _ | 18 beloved | advmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 strong | cc |
| 21 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 beloved | conj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 noble | punct |
| 23 | beloved | beloved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 noble | amod |
| 24 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 said | parataxis |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 modest | cc |
| 26 | modest | modest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 noble | conj |
| 27 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 noble | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Deirdre | this lament | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | love in a quote | past | Fair one | one | flower of beauty obl | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | belov in a quote | participle | upright property | tree rules |
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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