Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 83

When the men neared them, Deirdre remembered the language of the huntsman, and she said to herself that these were the three sons of Uisnech, and that this was Naois, he having what was above the bend of the two shoulders above the men of Erin all.

Who acts: men, Deirdre, nurse, these, this, Naois · What happens: near, remember, say, be, have · To what, where: Deirdre, language, nurse, three sons, Naois, all · 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 (men, Deirdre, nurse, these), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 neared	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 men	det
3	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 neared	nsubj
4	neared	near	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 remembered	advcl
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 neared	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 neared	punct
7	Deirdre	Deirdre	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 remembered	nsubj
8	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 language	det
10	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 remembered	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 huntsman	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 huntsman	det
13	huntsman	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 language	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 remembered	parataxis
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 herself	case
19	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 said	obl
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 sons	mark
21	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	25 sons	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 sons	cop
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 sons	det
24	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 sons	nummod
25	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 said	ccomp
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 Uisnech	case
27	Uisnech	Uisnech	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 sons	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 having	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 having	cc
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 having	mark
31	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 Naois	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 Naois	cop
33	Naois	Naois	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 having	nsubj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Naois	punct
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 having	nsubj
36	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 remembered	advcl
37	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	41 bend	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 bend	cop
39	above	above	ADP	_	41 bend	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 bend	det
41	bend	bend	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 having	parataxis
42	of	of	ADP	_	45 shoulders	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 shoulders	det
44	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	45 shoulders	nummod
45	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 bend	nmod
46	above	above	ADP	_	48 men	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 men	det
48	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 shoulders	nmod
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 Erin	case
50	Erin	Erin	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 men	nmod
51	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	36 having	obj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 remembered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	near	past	the men	Deirdre				tree rules
2	remember	past	Deirdre	the language of the huntsman				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent language=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	nurse		nurse			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient
4	is a	past	these	the three sons			of Uisnech	tree rules
5	is a	past	this	Naois				tree rules
6	have	gerund	Naois	all				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Patient
7	is	past				the bend	of the two shoulders above the men of Erin	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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