Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 94
Naois and Deirdre met, and Deirdre kissed Naois three times, and a kiss each to his brothers.
Who acts: Naois, Deirdre · What happens: meet, kiss · To what, where: kiss, Naois
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 (Naois, Deirdre), 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 | Naois | Naois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 met | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Deirdre | cc |
| 3 | Deirdre | Deirdre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Naois | conj |
| 4 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 kissed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 kissed | cc |
| 7 | Deirdre | Deirdre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 kissed | nsubj |
| 8 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 met | conj |
| 9 | Naois | Naois | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 kissed | obj |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 times | nummod |
| 11 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 kissed | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 kiss | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 kiss | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 kiss | det |
| 15 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 met | obl |
| 16 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 kiss | nmod:unmarked |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 brothers | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 19 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 met | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | Naois and Deirdre | a kiss each | to Connachar's brothers | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | kiss | past | Deirdre | Naois | time | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent naois=Co-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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