Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 197
Strong are the waves of sorrow, but stronger is sorrow's self, Connachar."
What happens: be · To what, where: Strong waves, stronger self
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: 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 | Strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 waves | amod |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 waves | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 waves | det |
| 4 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 sorrow | case |
| 6 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 waves | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 self | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 self | cc |
| 9 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 self | amod |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 self | cop |
| 11 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 self | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 sorrow | case |
| 13 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 waves | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Connachar | punct |
| 15 | Connachar | Connachar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 self | appos |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 Connachar | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 self | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Strong waves | of sorrow | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | sorrow's stronger self | 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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