Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 55
He desired his look-out men to set a watch on the sons of Conall, and to give them meat.
Who acts: king · What happens: desire, set, give · To what, where: out men, watch, meat, sons
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 (king), 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 desired | nsubj |
| 2 | desired | desire | 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 | 7 men | nmod:poss |
| 4 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 out | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
| 6 | out | out | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 men | compound |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 desired | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 set | mark |
| 9 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 desired | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 watch | det |
| 11 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 set | obj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 sons | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sons | det |
| 14 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 set | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Conall | case |
| 16 | Conall | Conall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 sons | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 give | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 give | cc |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 give | mark |
| 20 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 desired | conj |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 give | iobj |
| 22 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 give | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 desired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | desire | past | king | king's out men | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot man=Theme | ||||
| 2 | set | to-infinitive | king not said here | a watch | on the sons of Conall | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent watch=Theme on son=Destination | |||
| 3 | give | to-infinitive | king not said here | meat | sons = son | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient meat=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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