Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 86
She girded up her raiment and went after the men that went past the base of the knoll, leaving her women attendants there.
Who acts: love, men · What happens: gird up, go, leave · To what, where: raiment, base, women attendants
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 (love, men), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 girded | nsubj |
| 2 | girded | gird | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 girded | compound:prt |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 raiment | nmod:poss |
| 5 | raiment | raiment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 girded | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 went | cc |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 girded | conj |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 men | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 men | det |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 went | obl |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 men | acl:relcl |
| 13 | past | past | ADP | _ | 15 base | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 base | det |
| 15 | base | base | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 knoll | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 knoll | det |
| 18 | knoll | knoll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 base | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 leaving | punct |
| 20 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 went | advcl |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 women | nmod:poss |
| 22 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 attendants | compound |
| 23 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 leaving | obj |
| 24 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 leaving | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 girded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gird up | past | love | love's raiment | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past | love not said here | after the men | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | past | the men | the base of the knoll | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme past base=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | leave | gerund | the men not said here | women attendants | there | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attendant=Theme |
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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