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title: "It is not you, but we that will go," said Daring Drop, and Hardy Ho… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "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. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of Deirdre, sentence 154

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"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."

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**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

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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.

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**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:pg7885:13:154
# text = "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."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	Daring	Daring	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Drop	Drop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
19	Hardy	Hardy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Holly	Holly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	Fiallan	Fiallan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Fair	Fair	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	ccomp	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	entrusted	entrust	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	_
36	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	defence	defence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	from	from	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	_
42	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	45	advmod	_	_
43	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
44	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	43	nmod:unmarked	_	_
45	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	advcl	_	_
46	for	for	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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.

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**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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