Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 102

"It will be best," said they, "to seek Mabon the son of Modron; and he will not be found unless we first find Eidoel, the son of Aer, his kinsman."

Who acts: raiment, things, we · What happens: be, say, seek, not find, find · To what, where: Mabon, son, Eidoel · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (raiment, things, we), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 be	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 be	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 be	aux
4	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
5	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 be	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 be	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 be	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 seek	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 seek	punct
12	to	to	PART	_	13 seek	mark
13	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	conj
14	Mabon	Mabon	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 seek	obj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 son	det
16	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seek	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 Modron	case
18	Modron	Modron	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 son	nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 found	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 found	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 found	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 found	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 found	advmod
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 found	aux:pass
25	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 said	conj
26	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	29 find	mark
27	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 find	nsubj
28	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	29 find	advmod
29	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 found	advcl
30	Eidoel	Eidoel	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 find	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 son	punct
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 son	det
33	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 Eidoel	appos
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 Aer	case
35	Aer	Aer	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 son	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 kinsman	punct
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 kinsman	nmod:poss
38	kinsman	kinsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 Eidoel	appos
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	be in a quote	future	raiment		well property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	things = thing			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	seek in a quote	to-infinitive	things = thing not said here	Mabon		tree rules
4	not find in a quote	future · passive		son		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
5	find a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	we	Eidoel	first property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eidoel=Topic

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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