Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 73
Deirdre was raised on the topmost of the heroes' shoulders and she and her foster-mother were brought to the Court of King Connachar of Ulster.
What happens: raise, bring · To what, where: Deirdre, woman, Court
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: 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 | Deirdre | Deirdre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 raised | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 raised | aux:pass |
| 3 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 topmost | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 topmost | det |
| 6 | topmost | topmost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 raised | xcomp |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 shoulders | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 heroes | det |
| 9 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 9 heroes | case |
| 11 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 topmost | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 brought | cc |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 mother | cc |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 mother | nmod:poss |
| 16 | foster | foster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 mother | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 foster | punct |
| 18 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 she | conj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 brought | aux:pass |
| 20 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 raised | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 Court | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Court | det |
| 23 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 brought | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Connachar | case |
| 25 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Connachar | compound |
| 26 | Connachar | Connachar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Court | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Ulster | case |
| 28 | Ulster | Ulster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Connachar | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | past · passive | Deirdre | topmost property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bring | past · passive | woman | the Court of King Connachar of Ulster | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to court=Destination |
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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