Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 154
"It is not you, but we that will go," said Daring Drop, and Hardy Holly, and Fiallan the Fair; "it is to us that our father entrusted your defence from harm and danger when he himself left for home."
Who acts: pursuit, we, Daring Drop, father, Holly, your · What happens: not be, go, say, be, entrust, leave · To what, where: you, Fair, defence, harm · 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 (pursuit, we, Daring Drop, father), 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 | _ | 5 you | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 you | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 you | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 you | advmod |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 go | cc |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 go | nsubj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 go | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 go | aux |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 you | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | Daring | Daring | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Drop | compound |
| 16 | Drop | Drop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Fair | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 Fair | cc |
| 19 | Hardy | Hardy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Holly | compound |
| 20 | Holly | Holly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Fair | nsubj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Fiallan | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 Fiallan | cc |
| 23 | Fiallan | Fiallan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Holly | flat |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Fair | det |
| 25 | Fair | Fair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 us | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 us | punct |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 us | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 us | cop |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 us | case |
| 31 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 said | ccomp |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 entrusted | mark |
| 33 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 father | nmod:poss |
| 34 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 entrusted | nsubj |
| 35 | entrusted | entrust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 us | advcl |
| 36 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 defence | nmod:poss |
| 37 | defence | defence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 entrusted | obj |
| 38 | from | from | ADP | _ | 39 harm | case |
| 39 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 defence | nmod |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 danger | cc |
| 41 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 harm | conj |
| 42 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 45 left | advmod |
| 43 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 left | nsubj |
| 44 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 43 he | nmod:unmarked |
| 45 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 entrusted | advcl |
| 46 | for | for | ADP | _ | 47 home | case |
| 47 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 left | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 49 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a in a quote | present | pursuit | you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | future | we | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Daring Drop | the Fair | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | pursuit | to us | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | entrust in a quote | past | our father | your defence | harm and danger | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent defence=Recipient | |||
| 6 | leave in a quote | participle | Holly | for home | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for home=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | defend in a quote | your | harm and danger | nom defence «process transitive»: poss=agent from=place |
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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