Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 93

No! yonder is a woman's cry of distress," said Naois, and he swore he would not go further until he saw from whom the cry came, and Naois turned back.

Who acts: cry, Connachar, Naois · What happens: be, say, swear, not go, see, come · To what, where: cry · 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 (cry, Connachar, Naois), 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	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 cry	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	8 cry	advmod
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 cry	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 woman	det
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cry	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 woman	case
8	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 distress	case
10	distress	distress	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cry	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cry	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 cry	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	Naois	Naois	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 swore	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 swore	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 swore	nsubj
18	swore	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	parataxis
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 go	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 go	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 go	advmod
22	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 swore	ccomp
23	further	further	ADV	_	22 go	advmod
24	until	until	SCONJ	_	26 saw	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 saw	nsubj
26	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 go	advcl
27	from	from	ADP	_	28 whom	case
28	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 saw	obl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 cry	det
30	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 came	nsubj
31	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 whom	acl:relcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 turned	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 turned	cc
34	Naois	Naois	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 turned	nsubj
35	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	conj
36	back	back	ADV	_	35 turned	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	be speech: express	present		a woman's cry	of distress; yonder property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	a woman's cry			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	swear in a quote	past	Connachar			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	not go in a quote	would	Connachar		further property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	see in a quote	past	Connachar			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	come in a quote	past	the cry			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	turn back in a quote	past	Naois			vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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