Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 56

And a double watch was set that night on the sons of Conall.

What happens: set · To what, where: double watch

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: 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 set	cc
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 watch	det
3	double	double	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 watch	amod
4	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 set	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 set	aux:pass
6	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 night	det
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 set	obl:unmarked
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 sons	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sons	det
11	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 set	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Conall	case
13	Conall	Conall	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 sons	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	past · passive		a double watch			night	on the sons of Conall	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on son=Destination

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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