Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 22
Deirdre and her foster-mother dwelt in the bothy mid the hills without the knowledge or the suspicion of any living person about them and without anything occurring, until Deirdre was sixteen years of age.
Who acts: Deirdre · What happens: dwell, mi, occur, be, suspect · To what, where: hills, bothy, living person
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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Deirdre | Deirdre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 dwelt | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 mother | cc |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 mother | nmod:poss |
| 4 | foster | foster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mother | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 foster | punct |
| 6 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Deirdre | conj |
| 7 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 bothy | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bothy | det |
| 10 | bothy | bothy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mid | obl |
| 11 | mid | mi | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 dwelt | ccomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hills | det |
| 13 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 mid | obj |
| 14 | without | without | ADP | _ | 16 knowledge | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 knowledge | det |
| 16 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mid | obl |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 suspicion | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 suspicion | det |
| 19 | suspicion | suspicion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 knowledge | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 person | case |
| 21 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 person | det |
| 22 | living | living | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 person | amod |
| 23 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 suspicion | nmod |
| 24 | about | about | ADP | _ | 25 them | case |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 person | nmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 anything | cc |
| 27 | without | without | ADP | _ | 28 anything | case |
| 28 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 25 them | conj |
| 29 | occurring | occur | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 anything | acl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 years | punct |
| 31 | until | until | ADP | _ | 35 years | case |
| 32 | Deirdre | Deirdre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 years | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 years | cop |
| 34 | sixteen | sixteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 years | nummod |
| 35 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 mid | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 age | case |
| 37 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 years | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 dwelt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | past | Deirdre and company's foster mother | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | mi | past | Deirdre and company's foster mother not said here | the hills | the bothy | without the knowledge or the suspicion of any living person about Deirdre | tree rules | ||
| 3 | occur | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | Deirdre | until sixteen years; of age | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | suspect | any living person about Deirdre | nom suspicion «cognition transitive»: of=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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