Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 97

Then Naois placed Deirdre on the topmost height of his shoulder, and told his brothers to keep up their pace, and they kept up their pace.

Who acts: Naois · What happens: place, tell, keep up · To what, where: Deirdre, topmost height, brothers, pace · 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 (Naois), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 placed	advmod
2	Naois	Naois	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 placed	nsubj
3	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Deirdre	Deirdre	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 placed	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 height	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 height	det
7	topmost	topmost	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 height	amod
8	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 placed	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 shoulder	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 shoulder	nmod:poss
11	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 height	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 told	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 told	cc
14	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 placed	conj
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 brothers	nmod:poss
16	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 told	iobj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 keep	mark
18	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 told	xcomp
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 keep	compound:prt
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 pace	nmod:poss
21	pace	pace	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 keep	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 kept	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 kept	cc
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 kept	nsubj
25	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 placed	conj
26	up	up	ADP	_	25 kept	compound:prt
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 pace	nmod:poss
28	pace	pace	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 kept	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	place	past	Naois	Deirdre		the topmost height of colour's shoulder	then	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent deirdre=Theme on height=Destination
2	tell speech: assert	past	Naois not said here		colour's brothers			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient clause=Topic
3	keep up not said to happen	to-infinitive	Naois not said here	Naois's pace				vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent pace=Theme
4	keep up	past	Naois	Naois's pace				vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent pace=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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