Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 74
With the love that Connachar had for her, he wanted to marry Deirdre right off there and then, will she nill she marry him.
Who acts: Connachar, woman · What happens: have, want, marry, nill · To what, where: love, Deirdre, Ulster, 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 (Connachar, woman), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 love | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 love | det |
| 3 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wanted | obl |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 had | obj |
| 5 | Connachar | Connachar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 had | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 love | acl:relcl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 had | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 love | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 wanted | nsubj |
| 11 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 marry | mark |
| 13 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 wanted | xcomp |
| 14 | Deirdre | Deirdre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 marry | obj |
| 15 | right | right | ADV | _ | 17 there | advmod |
| 16 | off | off | ADV | _ | 17 there | advmod |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 marry | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 then | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 there | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 nill | punct |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 nill | aux |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 nill | nsubj |
| 23 | nill | nill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 marry | conj |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 nill | obj |
| 25 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 nill | xcomp |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 marry | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Connachar | the love | for woman | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient | |||
| 2 | want | past | Connachar | with the love | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive | Connachar not said here | Deirdre | there | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deirdre=Patient | |||
| 4 | nill | future | woman | Ulster | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | marry | infinitive | woman not said here | Connachar | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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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