Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 90
She cried: "Naois, son of Uisnech, will you leave me?" "
Who acts: woman, you · What happens: cry, leave · To what, where: Naois, woman · 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 (woman, you), 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 cried | nsubj |
| 2 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 Naois | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Naois | punct |
| 5 | Naois | Naois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 cried | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 son | punct |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Naois | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Uisnech | case |
| 9 | Uisnech | Uisnech | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 son | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 leave | punct |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 leave | aux |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 leave | nsubj |
| 13 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 cried | parataxis |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 leave | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 leave | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 leave | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | woman | Naois | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | leave in a quote | future | you | woman | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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