Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 133

After that I went with my whole kindred to attack him and to try to destroy him, but he sent messengers and made peace with me, and came and besought me to take fifty fish-spears out of his back.

Who acts: I, rock · What happens: go, attack, try, destroy, send, make · To what, where: rock, messengers, peace, me, fifty fish spears, back

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, rock), 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 that	case
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 went	obl
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	SCONJ	_	8 kindred	mark
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 kindred	nmod:poss
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 kindred	amod
8	kindred	kindred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 went	xcomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 attack	mark
10	attack	attack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 kindred	advcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 attack	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 try	cc
13	to	to	PART	_	14 try	mark
14	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 attack	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 destroy	mark
16	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 try	xcomp
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 destroy	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sent	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 sent	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sent	nsubj
21	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
22	messengers	messenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 sent	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 made	cc
24	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
25	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 made	obj
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 me	case
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 made	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 came	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 came	cc
30	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	parataxis
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 besought	cc
32	besought	beseech	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 came	conj
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 besought	obj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 take	mark
35	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 besought	xcomp
36	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 spears	nummod
37	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 spears	compound
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 fish	punct
39	spears	spear	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 take	obj
40	out	out	ADP	_	43 back	case
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 back	case
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 back	nmod:poss
43	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 take	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	I			after that	kindred property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	attack	to-infinitive	I not said here	rock				vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	try	to-infinitive	I not said here					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	destroy not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	rock				vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
5	send	past	rock	messengers				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme
6	make	past	I not said here	peace			with me	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset peace=Product
7	come	past						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	beseech	past		me				tree rules
9	take	to-infinitive		fifty fish spears	rock's back			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent spear=Theme out back=Initial_Location

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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