Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 107

His followers then said unto Arthur, "Lord, go thou home, thou canst not proceed with thy host in quest of such small adventures as these."

Who acts: followers, Lord, thou, such small adventures · What happens: say, go, not proceed, quest · To what, where: thou, quest · 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 (followers, Lord, thou, such small adventures), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 followers	nmod:poss
2	followers	follower	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 said	nsubj
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 said	advmod
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	unto	unto	ADP	_	6 Arthur	case
6	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 go	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 go	punct
9	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 go	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Lord	punct
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
12	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	11 go	obj
13	home	home	ADV	_	11 go	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 proceed	punct
15	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	18 proceed	nsubj
16	canst	can	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	18 proceed	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 proceed	advmod
18	proceed	proceed	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 go	conj
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 host	case
20	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	21 host	nmod:poss
21	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 proceed	obl
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 quest	case
23	quest	quest	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 proceed	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 adventures	case
25	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 adventures	amod
26	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 adventures	amod
27	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 quest	nmod
28	as	as	ADP	_	29 these	case
29	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	27 adventures	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 go	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Said's followers			then	unto Arthur	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go in a quote	infinitive	Lord	thou			home property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thou=Theme
3	not proceed in a quote	can	thou		quest of such small adventures as these		with thy host	vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	quest in a quote		such small adventures as these					nom quest «cognition intransitive»: of=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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