Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 135

But there is a house down yonder where I keep strangers, and let them go down to it today, and my house will be ready before them tomorrow."

Who acts: house, I, strangers · What happens: be down, keep, let, go down, be · To what, where: strangers, coracle

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story of Deirdre. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (house, I, strangers), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 is	cc
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 is	expl
3	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 keep	advcl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 house	det
5	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 is	nsubj
6	down	down	ADP	_	3 is	compound:prt
7	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	8 where	advmod
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 keep	advmod
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 keep	nsubj
10	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 keep	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 let	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 let	cc
14	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 keep	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 let	obj
16	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 let	xcomp
17	down	down	ADV	_	16 go	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 go	obl
20	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 go	obl:unmarked
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 ready	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 ready	cc
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 house	nmod:poss
24	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 ready	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 ready	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 ready	cop
27	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 keep	advcl
28	before	before	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 ready	obl
30	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 ready	obl:unmarked
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 keep	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 keep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be down	present	a house			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep	present	I	strangers					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stranger=Theme
3	let	infinitive	I not said here	strangers = stranger					tree rules
4	go down	infinitive	strangers = stranger not said here		coracle		today	down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	is	future	my house				before strangers = stranger; tomorrow	ready property	tree rules

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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