Bill,
I
don’t know if your examples are the same.
That this, in 1. you can move “story”: Brunhild told a story to Ivar.
But
can you do that with the other two examples?
Christine
in Baltimore
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Diane –
I
wouldn’t even read it as inverted. The basic sentence format seems to be “X
told Y Z,” with Z being an infinitive in this case (but not necessarily in
others); e.g.:
Brunnhild told Ivar a story.
Brunnhild told Ivar to load the catapult.
Brunnhild told Ivar, “Load the catapult.”
Granted,
‘told’ with an NP object doesn’t seem to mean the same thing as ‘told’ with an
infinitival object, and if we wanted to multiply sentence types we could view
them differently, but for pedagogic purposes a “coarse” analysis is probably
better. If I’m right on that, ‘everyone’ in your sentence is a regular indirect
object, like ‘Ivar’ in my examples above, and ‘Who’ is standing in for the
subject as an interrogative, not a relative, pronoun. The relative pronoun
would be in something like this:
That’s the guy who told everyone to get along with one another.
I’m
sure there are other takes on this one, but that’s one that will work fairly
simply.
Bill
Spruiell
Dept.
of English