Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 137
Go you, Gelban Grednach, son of Lochlin's King, go you down and bring me information as to whether her former hue and complexion are on Deirdre.
Who acts: you, former hue · What happens: go, go down, bring, be · To what, where: you, information, me
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 (you, former hue), 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 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 1 Go | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Gelban | punct |
| 4 | Gelban | Gelban | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Go | obl |
| 5 | Grednach | Grednach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Gelban | flat |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 son | punct |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Gelban | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 King | case |
| 9 | Lochlin | Lochlin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 King | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Lochlin | case |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 son | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 go | obj |
| 15 | down | down | ADP | _ | 13 go | compound:prt |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 bring | cc |
| 17 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 bring | obj |
| 19 | information | information | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bring | obj |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 30 Deirdre | case |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 as | fixed |
| 22 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 30 Deirdre | mark |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 hue | nmod:poss |
| 24 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 hue | amod |
| 25 | hue | hue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 Deirdre | nsubj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 complexion | cc |
| 27 | complexion | complexion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hue | conj |
| 28 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 Deirdre | cop |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 Deirdre | case |
| 30 | Deirdre | Deirdre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 bring | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | you | Gelban obl | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location you=Theme | |||
| 2 | go down | infinitive | you not said here | you | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient you=Extent | ||||
| 3 | bring | infinitive | you not said here | information | me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination information=Theme | |||
| 4 | is | present | Lochlin's former hue and complexion | as Deirdre | 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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