--- title: Naois looked around, and when he saw his two well-beloved brothers d… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Naois looked around, and when he saw his two well-beloved brothers dead, he cared not whether he lived or died, and he gave forth the bitter sigh of death, and his heart burst. Who acts: Naois, hold. 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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 (Naois, hold), 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:pg7885:13:186 # text = Naois looked around, and when he saw his two well-beloved brothers dead, he cared not whether he lived or died, and he gave forth the bitter sigh of death, and his heart burst. 1 Naois Naois PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 around around ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 6 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 10 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 11 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 beloved beloved ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 15 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 cared care VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 20 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 29 forth forth ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 bitter bitter ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 sigh sigh NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 37 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 38 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 burst burst NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look around** | past | Naois | | | | | around *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **see** | past | hold | hold's two beloved brothers | | | | dead *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brother=Stimulus | | 3 | **not** **care** | past | hold | | | | | | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **live** | past | hold | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **die** | past | hold *not said here* | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 6 | **give** | past | hold | the bitter sigh of death | | | | hold's heart burst *obl*; forth *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sigh=Theme | | 7 | **sigh** | | | death | | | | | nom sigh «communication transitive»: of=patient | | 8 | **burst** | | hold | | | | | | nom burst «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. - ← previous: [sentence 185](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/13/185/) - next →: [sentence 187](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/13/187/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Deirdre](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/13/)