Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 100
And thou shalt not be chargeable for food or raiment for my daughter while thou art seeking these things; and when thou hast compassed all these marvels, thou shalt have my daughter for wife."
Who acts: thou · What happens: not be, seek, compass, have · To what, where: things, thou, daughter
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Wooing of Olwen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 chargeable | cc |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 chargeable | nsubj |
| 3 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 6 chargeable | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 chargeable | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 chargeable | cop |
| 6 | chargeable | chargeable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 food | case |
| 8 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chargeable | obl |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 raiment | cc |
| 10 | raiment | raiment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 food | conj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 daughter | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 13 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 food | nmod |
| 14 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 art | mark |
| 15 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 art | nsubj |
| 16 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 chargeable | advcl |
| 17 | seeking | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 art | xcomp |
| 18 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 19 things | det |
| 19 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 seeking | obj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 compassed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 compassed | cc |
| 22 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 compassed | advmod |
| 23 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 compassed | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 compassed | aux |
| 25 | compassed | compass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 chargeable | conj |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 marvels | det:predet |
| 27 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 28 marvels | det |
| 28 | marvels | marvel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 compassed | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 have | punct |
| 30 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 32 have | nsubj |
| 31 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 32 have | aux |
| 32 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 chargeable | parataxis |
| 33 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 34 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 have | obj |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 wife | case |
| 36 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 have | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 chargeable | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 chargeable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | shall | thou | for food for my daughter or raiment; chargeable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | seek | gerund | thou not said here | this things | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | ||||
| 3 | compass | present · perfect · passive | thou | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | have | shall | thou | my daughter | for wife | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient |
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: «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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