Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 108

Then said Arthur, "It were well for thee, Gwrhyr Gwalstawt Ieithoedd, to go upon this quest, for thou knowest all languages, and art familiar with those of the birds and the beasts.

Who acts: Arthur, quest, thou · What happens: say, be, go, know · To what, where: quest, languages · 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 (Arthur, quest, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 said	advmod
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 thee	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 thee	punct
6	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 thee	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 thee	cop
8	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 thee	advmod
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 thee	case
10	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	2 said	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Gwalstawt	punct
12	Gwrhyr	Gwrhyr	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Gwalstawt	compound
13	Gwalstawt	Gwalstawt	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 thee	appos
14	Ieithoedd	Ieithoedd	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Gwalstawt	flat
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 go	punct
16	to	to	PART	_	17 go	mark
17	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
18	upon	upon	ADP	_	20 quest	case
19	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 quest	det
20	quest	quest	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 go	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 knowest	punct
22	for	for	SCONJ	_	24 knowest	mark
23	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	24 knowest	nsubj
24	knowest	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 go	parataxis
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 languages	det
26	languages	language	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 knowest	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 familiar	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 familiar	cc
29	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 familiar	nsubj
30	familiar	familiar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	conj
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 those	case
32	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	30 familiar	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 birds	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 birds	det
35	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 those	nmod
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 beasts	cc
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 beasts	det
38	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 birds	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Arthur			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	past	quest				for thee; well property	tree rules
3	go in a quote	to-infinitive			this quest			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon quest=Location
4	know in a quote	present	thou	all languages				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer language=Stimulus

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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