--- title: “We were ordered to tell you as follows,” said the grim cleric, and… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “We were ordered to tell you as follows,” said the grim cleric, and he buried the fingers of his right hand in his left fist, so that one could not hope to see them resurrected again. Who acts: We, grim cleric, man, one. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V, with its depend --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/44/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Irish Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/) / [Chapter V](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/44/) / 8 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 8 “We were ordered to tell you as follows,” said the grim cleric, and he buried the fingers of his right hand in his left fist, so that one could not hope to see them resurrected again. **Who acts:** We, grim cleric, man, one, fingers · **What happens:** order, tell, follow, say, bury, not hope · **To what, where:** We, you, fingers, left fist · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, grim cleric, man, one), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2892:44:8 # text = “We were ordered to tell you as follows,” said the grim cleric, and he buried the fingers of his right hand in his left fist, so that one could not hope to see them resurrected again. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 ordered order VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 ccomp _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 iobj _ _ 8 as as SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 9 follows follow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 12 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 grim grim ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 cleric cleric NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 buried bury VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 fingers finger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 28 left left ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 fist fist NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 31 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 36 mark _ _ 32 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 fixed _ _ 33 one one PRON PRP Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 34 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 36 hope hope VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 advcl _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ _ 39 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 resurrected resurrect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 xcomp _ _ 41 again again ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **order** *in a quote* | past · passive | | We | | | | | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | We *not said here* | | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | | 3 | **follow** *in a quote* | present | We *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the grim cleric | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **bury** | past | man | the fingers of man's right hand | | man's left fist | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent finger=Theme in fist=Destination | | 6 | **not** **hope** | could | one | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 7 | **see** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | one *not said here* | fingers *= finger* | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **resurrect** | participle | fingers *= finger* *not said here* | | | | again | | tree rules | 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:** «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/44/7/) - next →: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/44/9/) - ↑ back to [Chapter V](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/44/)