Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 151

Connachar ordered three hundred active heroes to go down to the abode of the strangers and to take Deirdre up with them and kill the rest. "

Who acts: Connachar, hundred active heroes · What happens: order, go down, take up, kill · To what, where: hundred active heroes, Deirdre, rest

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 (Connachar, hundred active 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	Connachar	Connachar	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 ordered	nsubj
2	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 hundred	compound
4	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 heroes	nummod
5	active	active	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 heroes	amod
6	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ordered	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 go	mark
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ordered	xcomp
9	down	down	ADV	_	8 go	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 abode	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 abode	det
12	abode	abode	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 go	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 strangers	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 strangers	det
15	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 abode	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 take	cc
17	to	to	PART	_	18 take	mark
18	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 go	conj
19	Deirdre	Deirdre	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 take	obj
20	up	up	ADP	_	18 take	compound:prt
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 take	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 kill	cc
24	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 take	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 rest	det
26	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 kill	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ordered	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 ordered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	order	past	Connachar	hundred active heroes			vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent hero=Recipient clause=Topic
2	go down not said to happen	to-infinitive	hundred active heroes not said here			to the abode of the strangers; down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	take up	to-infinitive	hundred active heroes not said here		Deirdre	with Deirdre	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument deirdre=Destination
4	kill	infinitive	hundred active heroes not said here	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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