Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 160

Greater by far do we prefer to go home to our father and tell the deeds of heroism we have done, than accept anything on these terms from you.

Who acts: we · What happens: prefer, go, tell, do, accept · To what, where: deeds, heroism, anything, terms · 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 (we), 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	Greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
2	by	by	SCONJ	_	6 prefer	mark
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 prefer	advmod
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 prefer	aux
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 prefer	nsubj
6	prefer	prefer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Greater	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 go	mark
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 prefer	xcomp
9	home	home	ADV	_	8 go	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 father	case
11	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 father	nmod:poss
12	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 go	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 tell	cc
14	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 go	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 deeds	det
16	deeds	deed	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 tell	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 heroism	case
18	heroism	heroism	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 deeds	nmod
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 done	nsubj
20	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 done	aux
21	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 heroism	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 accept	punct
23	than	than	SCONJ	_	24 accept	mark
24	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 tell	conj
25	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	24 accept	obj
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 terms	case
27	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	28 terms	det
28	terms	term	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 accept	obl
29	from	from	ADP	_	30 you	case
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 accept	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Greater	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	prefer	present · do-support	we			far property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	we not said here			to our father; home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to father=Initial_Location
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive	we not said here	the deeds of heroism			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent deed=Recipient
4	do	present · perfect	we	heroism not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heroism=Eventuality
5	accept	infinitive	we not said here	anything	this terms	from you	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent anything=Theme from you=Source

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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