Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 37

Oh, foster-mother, the bird asked to get inside for the sake of the God of the Elements, and you yourself tell me that anything that is asked in His name we ought to do.

Who acts: foster mother, you, anything, house · What happens: ask, get, tell, do, name · To what, where: me, name · 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 (foster mother, you, anything, house), 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	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	5 mother	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
3	foster	foster	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mother	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 foster	punct
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 asked	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mother	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bird	det
8	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 asked	nsubj
9	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 get	mark
11	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 asked	xcomp
12	inside	inside	ADV	_	11 get	advmod
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 sake	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sake	det
15	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 get	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 God	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 God	det
18	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 sake	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 Elements	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Elements	det
21	Elements	Element	PROPN	Number=Plur	18 God	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 tell	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 tell	cc
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 tell	nsubj
25	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 you	nmod
26	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 asked	conj
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 tell	iobj
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 do	mark
29	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	39 do	nsubj
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 asked	nsubj:pass
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 asked	aux:pass
32	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 anything	acl:relcl
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 name	case
34	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 name	nmod:poss
35	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 asked	obl
36	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 ought	nsubj
37	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 do	aux
38	to	to	PART	_	39 do	mark
39	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 tell	ccomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	foster mother				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	foster mother not said here			for the sake of the God of the Elements; inside property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent for sake=Source
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you	me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
4	ask speech: ask	present · passive			house's name		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
5	do not said to happen	ought	anything				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	name		house				nom name «communication 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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