Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 32
The hunter shouted out in his dream, if there was any one in the broch, to let him in for the Holy One's sake.
Who acts: hunter, man · What happens: shout out, be, let in, dream · To what, where: hunter, dream, one, broch, man
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 (hunter, man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hunter | det |
| 2 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 one | nsubj |
| 3 | shouted | shout | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 hunter | acl |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 shouted | compound:prt |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 dream | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 dream | nmod:poss |
| 7 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shouted | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 was | punct |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 was | mark |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 was | expl |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 one | cop |
| 12 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 one | det |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 broch | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 broch | det |
| 16 | broch | broch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 one | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 let | punct |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 let | mark |
| 19 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 one | parataxis |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 let | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 let | compound:prt |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 sake | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 One | det |
| 24 | Holy | Holy | PROPN | _ | 25 One | compound |
| 25 | One | One | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 sake | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 One | case |
| 27 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 let | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout out speech: express | participle | the hunter not said here | man's dream | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the hunter | any one | the broch | tree rules | |||
| 3 | let in | to-infinitive | man | for the Holy One's sake | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Theme for sake=Asset | ||||
| 4 | dream | man | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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