Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 117

Say, knowest thou aught of Mabon?"

Who acts: you · What happens: say, know · To what, where: thou · 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 (you), 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	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 knowest	punct
3	knowest	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	ccomp
4	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	3 knowest	obj
5	aught	aught	PRON	PronType=Ind	3 knowest	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Mabon	case
7	Mabon	Mabon	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 aught	nmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Say	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	know	present		thou					tree rules

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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