Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 13
When he rose on the morrow, he set himself and his three sons in order, and they took their journey towards Lochlann, and they made no stop but tore through ocean till they reached it.
Who acts: Conall, sons · What happens: rise, set, take, make, reach, journey · To what, where: morrow, Conall, order, journey, stop, ocean
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 (Conall, sons), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 rose | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rose | nsubj |
| 3 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 set | advcl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 morrow | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 morrow | det |
| 6 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rose | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 rose | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 set | nsubj |
| 9 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 set | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sons | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 sons | nmod:poss |
| 13 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 sons | nummod |
| 14 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 himself | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 order | case |
| 16 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 set | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 took | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 took | cc |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 took | nsubj |
| 20 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 set | parataxis |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 journey | nmod:poss |
| 22 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 took | obj |
| 23 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 24 Lochlann | case |
| 24 | Lochlann | Lochlann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 took | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 made | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 made | cc |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 made | nsubj |
| 28 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 took | conj |
| 29 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 30 stop | det |
| 30 | stop | stop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 made | obj |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 tore | cc |
| 32 | tore | tore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 stop | conj |
| 33 | through | through | ADP | _ | 34 ocean | case |
| 34 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 made | obl |
| 35 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 37 reached | mark |
| 36 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 reached | nsubj |
| 37 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 made | advcl |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 reached | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | Conall | the morrow | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on morrow=Location | ||||
| 2 | set | past | Conall | Conall | order | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in order=Destination | |||
| 3 | take | past | sons = son | sons's journey | towards Lochlann | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Theme | |||
| 4 | make | past | sons = son | no stop but tore | ocean | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset stop=Product | |||
| 5 | reach | past | sons = son | journey | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 6 | journey | sons = son | nom journey «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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