Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 134

Unless he know something of him whom you seek, I cannot tell you who may.

Who acts: rock, you, I · What happens: know, seek, not tell · To what, where: something, you · 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 (rock, you, I), 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	Unless	unless	SCONJ	_	3 know	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 know	nsubj
3	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 tell	advcl
4	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 know	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 something	nmod
7	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 seek	obj
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 seek	nsubj
9	seek	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 something	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 tell	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 tell	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 tell	advmod
14	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 tell	iobj
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 may	nsubj
17	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 tell	ccomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	know a condition, not said to happen	infinitive	rock	something		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus
2	seek	present	you			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme
3	not tell speech: assert	can	I		you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

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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