Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 130

From that day to this I have been here, and I have never heard of the man for whom you inquire, except once when I went in search of food as far as Llyn Llyw.

Who acts: I, you · What happens: be, not hear, inquire, go, search · To what, where: search, food

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	From	from	ADP	_	3 day	case
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 here	obl
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 this	case
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 day	nmod
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 here	nsubj
7	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 here	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 here	cop
9	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 heard	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 heard	cc
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	9 here	conj
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	_	25 once	punct
24	except	except	ADP	_	25 once	case
25	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	15 heard	advmod
26	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 went	advmod
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 went	nsubj
28	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 heard	advcl
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 search	case
30	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 went	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 food	case
32	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 search	nmod
33	as	as	ADV	_	34 far	advmod
34	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 went	advmod
35	as	as	ADP	_	37 Llyw	case
36	Llyn	Llyn	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Llyw	compound
37	Llyw	Llyw	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 far	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present · perfect	I			day	here property	tree rules
2	not hear	present · perfect	I				of the man; once property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of man=Stimulus
3	inquire speech: other	present	you					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	go	past	I		search of food		far property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in search=Location
5	search			food				nom search «act transitive»: of=patient

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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