Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 80

He told his intention to the priest, and the priest gave him his blessing.

Who acts: Guleesh, priest · What happens: tell, give, intend, bless · To what, where: intention, blessing, Guleesh · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Guleesh, priest), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 intention	nmod:poss
4	intention	intention	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	iobj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 priest	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 priest	det
7	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 gave	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 gave	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 priest	det
11	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gave	nsubj
12	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 gave	iobj
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 blessing	nmod:poss
15	blessing	blessing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gave	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Guleesh		Guleesh's intention	to the priest	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent intention=Topic to priest=Recipient
2	give	past	the priest	Guleesh's blessing	Guleesh		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient blessing=Theme
3	intend		Guleesh				nom intention «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
4	bless		Guleesh				nom blessing «act transitive»: poss=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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