--- title: "Well," said the soothsayer, "I saw in my second sight that it is on… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: "Well," said the soothsayer, "I saw in my second sight that it is on account of a daughter of yours that the greatest amount of blood shall be shed that has ever been shed in Erin since time and race began. Who acts: soothsayer, time, my. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soothsayer, time, my), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7885:13:15 # text = "Well," said the soothsayer, "I saw in my second sight that it is on account of a daughter of yours that the greatest amount of blood shall be shed that has ever been shed in Erin since time and race began. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Well well INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 soothsayer soothsayer NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 15 amod _ _ 15 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 that that SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 account account NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 ccomp _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 yours your PRON PRP Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod _ _ 26 that that SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 greatest great ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 29 amod _ _ 29 amount amount NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 32 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 34 aux:pass _ _ 34 shed shed VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 conj _ _ 35 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 39 nsubj:pass _ _ 36 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 37 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 39 advmod _ _ 38 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 39 aux:pass _ _ 39 shed shed VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 ccomp _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 Erin Erin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 42 since since SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 43 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nsubj _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 race race NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 conj _ _ 46 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the soothsayer | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **see** *in a quote* | past | the soothsayer *= soothsayer* | | | my second sight | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | soothsayer | | | account | | of a daughter of yours | tree rules | | 4 | **shed** *in a quote* | shall · passive | | the greatest amount of blood | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **shed** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive | | that | | Erin | ever | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Source | | 6 | **begin** *in a quote* | past | time and race | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 7 | **sight** *in a quote* | | my | | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | | 8 | **amount** *in a quote* | | | blood | | | | | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/13/14/) - next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/13/16/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Deirdre](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/13/)