Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 81

When they had sung me the cronan they betook themselves down where the head bard was. '

Who acts: care, head bard · What happens: sing, betake down, be · To what, where: care

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 (care, head bard), 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	4 sung	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sung	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sung	aux
4	sung	sing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 betook	advcl
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 sung	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cronan	det
7	cronan	cronan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sung	obj
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 betook	nsubj
9	betook	betake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 betook	obj
11	down	down	ADP	_	9 betook	compound:prt
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 was	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bard	det
14	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bard	compound
15	bard	bard	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 was	nsubj
16	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 betook	advcl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 betook	punct
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 betook	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past · perfect · passive		care	tree rules
2	betake down	past	care	care	tree rules
3	be	past	the head bard		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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