Celtic Fairy Tales, IX. Deirdre., sentence 3
I have abridged somewhat, made the sons of Fergus all faithful instead of two traitors, and omitted an incident in the house of the wild men called here "strangers."
Who acts: I · What happens: abridge, make, omit, call · To what, where: sons, incident, wild men · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 abridged | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 abridged | aux |
| 3 | abridged | abridge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | somewhat | somewhat | ADV | _ | 3 abridged | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 abridged | parataxis |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sons | det |
| 8 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 made | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Fergus | case |
| 10 | Fergus | Fergus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 sons | nmod |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 faithful | det |
| 12 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 made | obl |
| 13 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 16 traitors | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 instead | fixed |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 traitors | nummod |
| 16 | traitors | traitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 made | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 omitted | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 omitted | cc |
| 19 | omitted | omit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | conj |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 incident | det |
| 21 | incident | incident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 omitted | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 house | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 house | det |
| 24 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 strangers | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 men | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 men | det |
| 27 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 men | amod |
| 28 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 house | nmod |
| 29 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 men | acl |
| 30 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 called | advmod |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 house | punct |
| 32 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 omitted | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 abridged | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 abridged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | abridge | present · perfect | I | somewhat property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make | past | the sons of Fergus | instead two traitors; all faithful obl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset son=Product | ||||
| 3 | omit | past | a incident | strangers obl | vn exclude-107.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent incident=Theme | ||||
| 4 | call | participle | the wild men not said here | here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: 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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