Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 5
Whether it was that he was invited or that he came of himself, the soothsayer came to the house of Malcolm.
Who acts: man, soothsayer · What happens: invite, come · To what, where: soothsayer, house
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 (man, soothsayer), 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 | Whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 7 invited | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 invited | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 invited | aux:pass |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 invited | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 invited | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 invited | aux:pass |
| 7 | invited | invite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 came | cc |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 came | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 came | advcl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 himself | case |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 came | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 soothsayer | det |
| 16 | soothsayer | soothsayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | nsubj |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 invited | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 house | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 house | det |
| 20 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Malcolm | case |
| 22 | Malcolm | Malcolm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 house | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 invited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invite | past · passive | soothsayer | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | come | past | man | of man | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of himself=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | come | past | the soothsayer | the house of Malcolm | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_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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