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title: Strike up with you,' said the head bard, 'why should we be still? an… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Strike up with you,' said the head bard, 'why should we be still? and sing a cronan to Conall Yellowclaw.' Who acts: you, we. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Conall Yellowclaw, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 67

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Strike up with you,' said the head bard, 'why should we be still? and sing a cronan to Conall Yellowclaw.'

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**Who acts:** you, we · **What happens:** strike up, say, be, sing · **To what, where:** head bard, cronan, Conall · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Conall Yellowclaw. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we), 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:pg7885:9:67
# text = Strike up with you,' said the head bard, 'why should we be still? and sing a cronan to Conall Yellowclaw.'
1	Strike	strike	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	bard	bard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
14	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
17	still	still	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	sing	sing	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	cronan	cronan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Conall	Conall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	Yellowclaw	Yellowclaw	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike up** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with you | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with you=Instrument |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the head bard |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bard=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | should | we |  |  |  |  | still *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | infinitive | you *not said here* | a cronan | Conall |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent cronan=Topic to conall=Recipient |

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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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