Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 4

What did Malcolm hear but that a soothsayer had come home to the place, and as the man was a right good man, he wished that the soothsayer might come near them.

Who acts: Malcolm, soothsayer, man · What happens: hear, come, be, wish · To what, where: place, right good 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 (Malcolm, soothsayer, 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 hear	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hear	aux
3	Malcolm	Malcolm	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 hear	nsubj
4	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 come	cc
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 come	mark
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 soothsayer	det
8	soothsayer	soothsayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 come	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 come	aux
10	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 hear	conj
11	home	home	ADV	_	10 come	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 place	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 place	det
14	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 come	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 wished	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 wished	cc
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 man	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 man	det
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 man	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 man	cop
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 man	det
22	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 man	amod
23	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 man	amod
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wished	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 man	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 wished	nsubj
27	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hear	conj
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 come	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 soothsayer	det
30	soothsayer	soothsayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 come	nsubj
31	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 come	aux
32	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 wished	advcl
33	near	near	ADP	_	34 them	case
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 come	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past · do-support	Malcolm				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
2	come	past · perfect	a soothsayer		the place	home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location
3	is a	past	the man	a right good man			tree rules
4	wish	past	man				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	come	might	the soothsayer			near goods	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near they=Location

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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