Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 63
Connachar, King of Ulster, sent for his nearest kinsmen, and he told them of his intent.
Who acts: Connachar · What happens: send, tell, intend · To what, where: King · 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 (Connachar), 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 | Connachar | Connachar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 King | punct |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Connachar | appos |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Ulster | case |
| 5 | Ulster | Ulster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 King | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Connachar | punct |
| 7 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 kinsmen | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 kinsmen | nmod:poss |
| 10 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 kinsmen | amod |
| 11 | kinsmen | kinsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sent | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 told | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 told | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 told | nsubj |
| 15 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sent | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 told | iobj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 intent | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 intent | nmod:poss |
| 19 | intent | intent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 told | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | Connachar | for Connachar's nearest kinsmen | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Connachar | King | of Connachar's intent | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | |||
| 3 | intend | Connachar | nom intent «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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