Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 127

Yet all this time, even until to-day, I have never heard of the man for whom you inquire.

Who acts: I, you · What happens: not hear, inquire

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 (I, 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	Yet	yet	CCONJ	_	15 heard	cc
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 time	det:predet
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 heard	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 day	punct
6	even	even	ADV	_	10 day	advmod
7	until	until	ADP	_	10 day	case
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 day	case
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 to	punct
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 time	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 time	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 heard	nsubj
13	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 heard	aux
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 heard	advmod
15	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 man	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 man	det
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 heard	obl
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 whom	case
20	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 man	nmod
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 inquire	nsubj
22	inquire	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 whom	acl:relcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hear	present · perfect	I				time	of the man	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of man=Stimulus
2	inquire speech: other	present	you						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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