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title: They went forth to battle, but they always fell," yet the captive Ce… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They went forth to battle, but they always fell," yet the captive Celt has enslaved his captor in the realm of imagination. Who acts: Greeks. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, _to Alfred Nutt_, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, \_to Alfred Nutt\_, sentence 57

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They went forth to battle, but they always fell," yet the captive Celt has enslaved his captor in the realm of imagination.

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**Who acts:** Greeks · **What happens:** go, battle, fall, enslave · **To what, where:** captive Celt, realm

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, \_to Alfred Nutt\_. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Greeks), 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:pg7885:2:57
# text = They went forth to battle, but they always fell," yet the captive Celt has enslaved his captor in the realm of imagination.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	battle	battle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	10	advmod	_	_
10	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
13	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	captive	captive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Celt	celt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	enslaved	enslave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	captor	captor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	realm	realm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	imagination	imagination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Greeks *= greek* |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **battle** | to-infinitive | Greeks *= greek* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fall** | past | Greeks *= greek* |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **enslave** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | the captive Celt |  | the realm of imagination |  |  | tree rules |

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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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