Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 207
Thereupon a fir shoot grew out of the grave of Deirdre and a fir shoot from the grave of Naois, and the two shoots united in a knot above the loch.
Who acts: fir shoot · What happens: grow out · To what, where: grave
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 (fir shoot), 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 5 grew | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 shoot | det |
| 3 | fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shoot | compound |
| 4 | shoot | shoot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grew | nsubj |
| 5 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 grave | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 grave | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 grave | det |
| 9 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grew | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Deirdre | case |
| 11 | Deirdre | Deirdre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 grave | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 shoot | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 shoot | det |
| 14 | fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shoot | compound |
| 15 | shoot | shoot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grave | conj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 grave | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 grave | det |
| 18 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shoot | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Naois | case |
| 20 | Naois | Naois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 grave | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 united | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 united | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 shoots | det |
| 24 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 shoots | nummod |
| 25 | shoots | shoot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 united | nsubj |
| 26 | united | united | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 grew | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 knot | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 knot | det |
| 29 | knot | knot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 united | obl |
| 30 | above | above | ADP | _ | 32 loch | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 loch | det |
| 32 | loch | loch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 knot | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow out | past | a fir shoot | the grave of Deirdre and a fir shoot from the grave of Naois | thereupon property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location grave=Theme |
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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