Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 81

Guleesh accordingly went to the old rath when the night was darkening, and he stood with his bent elbow leaning on a grey old flag, waiting till the middle of the night should come.

Who acts: Guleesh, night · What happens: go, darken, stand, lean, wait, come · To what, where: old rath, grey old flag

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, night), 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	Guleesh	Guleesh	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
2	accordingly	accordingly	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 rath	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rath	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rath	amod
7	rath	rath	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 darkening	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 night	det
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 darkening	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 darkening	aux
12	darkening	darken	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 went	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stood	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 stood	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 stood	nsubj
16	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
17	with	with	ADP	_	20 elbow	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 elbow	nmod:poss
19	bent	bent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 elbow	amod
20	elbow	elbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stood	obl
21	leaning	lean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 stood	advcl
22	on	on	ADP	_	26 flag	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 flag	det
24	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 flag	amod
25	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 flag	amod
26	flag	flag	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 leaning	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 waiting	punct
28	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 come	nsubj
29	till	till	ADP	_	31 middle	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 middle	det
31	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 waiting	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 night	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 night	det
34	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 middle	nmod
35	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 come	aux
36	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 leaning	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Guleesh	the old rath		accordingly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to rath=Initial_Location
2	darken	past · progressive	the night				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	stand	past	Guleesh			with Guleesh's bent elbow	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	lean	gerund	Guleesh not said here	a grey old flag			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on flag=Location
5	wait	gerund			till the middle of the night		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	come	should					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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