Celtic Fairy Tales, IX. Deirdre., sentence 22
_, "Death of the Sons of Uisnech."
Who acts: Sons · What happens: die
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, IX. Deirdre.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sons), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 Death | punct |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Death | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Death | punct |
| 4 | Death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Sons | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Sons | det |
| 7 | Sons | Son | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 Death | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Uisnech | case |
| 9 | Uisnech | Uisnech | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Sons | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Death | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Death | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die in a quote | the Sons of Uisnech | nom death «event intransitive»: of=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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