Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 70
"It is I, Connachar, King of Ulster."
Who acts: bothy · What happens: be · To what, where: Connachar
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 (bothy), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Connachar | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 Connachar | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Connachar | cop |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 Connachar | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Connachar | punct |
| 6 | Connachar | Connachar | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 King | punct |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Connachar | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Ulster | case |
| 10 | Ulster | Ulster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 King | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Connachar | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Connachar | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | bothy | Connachar | tree rules |
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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