Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 150

"That is true," said Connachar; "let three hundred bravo heroes go down to the abode of the strangers, and let them bring hither to me Deirdre, and kill the rest."

Who acts: That, Connachar, hundred bravo heroes, heroes · What happens: be, say, let, go down, bring, kill · To what, where: heroes, Deirdre, Connachar, rest · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (That, Connachar, hundred bravo heroes, heroes), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 true	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 true	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 true	cop
4	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	parataxis
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 true	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 true	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Connachar	Connachar	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 let	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 let	punct
11	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
12	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 hundred	compound
13	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 heroes	nummod
14	bravo	bravo	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 heroes	compound
15	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 go	nsubj
16	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 let	conj
17	down	down	ADV	_	16 go	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 abode	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 abode	det
20	abode	abode	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 go	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 strangers	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 strangers	det
23	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 abode	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 let	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 let	cc
26	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 let	conj
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 let	obj
28	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 let	xcomp
29	hither	hither	ADV	_	28 bring	advmod
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 me	case
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 bring	obl
32	Deirdre	Deirdre	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 bring	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 kill	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 kill	cc
35	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 let	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 rest	det
37	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 kill	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 let	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	That			true property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Connachar				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	let in a quote	infinitive					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
4	go down in a quote	present	hundred bravo heroes			to the abode of the strangers; down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	let in a quote	infinitive		heroes = hero			tree rules
6	bring in a quote	infinitive	heroes = hero not said here	Deirdre	Connachar	hither property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent deirdre=Theme to i=Destination
7	kill in a quote	infinitive		the rest			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=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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