Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 106
"I will give thee my prisoner, though I had not thought to give him up to any one; and therewith shalt thou have my support and my aid."
Who acts: Glivi, thou, my · What happens: give, not think, give up, have, support · To what, where: prisoner, thee, Said, support
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 (Glivi, thou, my), 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 give | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 give | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | aux |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 give | iobj |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 prisoner | nmod:poss |
| 7 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 thought | punct |
| 9 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 13 thought | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 thought | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 thought | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 thought | advmod |
| 13 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 give | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 give | mark |
| 15 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 thought | xcomp |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 give | iobj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 give | compound:prt |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 one | case |
| 19 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 one | det |
| 20 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 give | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 have | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 have | cc |
| 23 | therewith | therewith | ADV | _ | 26 have | advmod |
| 24 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 26 have | aux |
| 25 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 26 have | nsubj |
| 26 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 give | conj |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 support | nmod:poss |
| 28 | support | support | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 have | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 aid | cc |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 aid | nmod:poss |
| 31 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 support | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | future | Glivi | my prisoner | thee | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient prisoner=Theme | |||
| 2 | not think speech: other in a quote | past · perfect | Glivi | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | give up in a quote | to-infinitive | Glivi not said here | Said | to any one | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to one=Recipient | |||
| 4 | have in a quote | shall | thou | my support and my aid | therewith property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent support=Patient | |||
| 5 | support in a quote | my | nom support «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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