Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 11
His wife took much sorrow that he was obliged to part from herself, while she knew not if she should see him more.
Who acts: wife · What happens: take, oblige, not know, see · To what, where: much sorrow, Conall
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Conall Yellowclaw. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 wife | nmod:poss |
| 2 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sorrow | amod |
| 5 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 obliged | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 obliged | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 obliged | aux:pass |
| 9 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 took | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 part | mark |
| 11 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 obliged | xcomp |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 herself | case |
| 13 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 part | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 knew | punct |
| 15 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 17 knew | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 knew | nsubj |
| 17 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | parataxis |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 knew | advmod |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 see | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 see | nsubj |
| 21 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 see | aux |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 knew | advcl |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 see | obj |
| 24 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 see | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Conall's wife | much sorrow | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sorrow=Theme | ||||
| 2 | oblige | past · passive | Conall | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | not know | past | wife | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | see a condition, not said to happen | should | wife | Conall | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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