Celtic Fairy Tales, XVII. Sea-maiden., sentence 28
Cuchulain fights _three_ of them successively, has his wounds bound up by a strip of the maiden's garment, and then departs.
Who acts: Cuchulain · What happens: have, bind up, depart, wound · To what, where: wounds
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVII. Sea-maiden.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cuchulain), 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 | Cuchulain | Cuchulain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 has | nsubj |
| 2 | fights | fight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Cuchulain | flat |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 _ | punct |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 _ | nummod |
| 5 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Cuchulain | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 _ | nmod |
| 8 | successively | successively | ADV | _ | 10 has | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 successively | punct |
| 10 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wounds | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wounds | wound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 has | obj |
| 13 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 wounds | acl |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 bound | compound:prt |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 strip | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 strip | det |
| 17 | strip | strip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bound | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 garment | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 maiden | det |
| 20 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 garment | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 maiden | case |
| 22 | garment | garment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 strip | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 departs | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 departs | cc |
| 25 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 departs | advmod |
| 26 | departs | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 has | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Cuchulain | Cuchulain's wounds | successively property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wound=Patient | |||
| 2 | bind up | participle | Cuchulain's wounds not said here | by a strip of the maiden's garment | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | depart | present | Cuchulain not said here | then | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wound | Cuchulain | nom wound «state 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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