Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 138

With every tide I go along the river upwards, until I come near to the walls of Gloucester, and there have I found such wrong as I never found elsewhere; and to the end that ye may give credence thereto, let one of you go thither upon each of my two shoulders."

Who acts: I, that, you · What happens: go, come, have, find, not find, give · To what, where: river, walls, credence, end, one, each

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, that, 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	With	with	ADP	_	3 tide	case
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 tide	det
3	tide	tide	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 go	nsubj
5	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	along	along	ADP	_	8 river	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 river	det
8	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
9	upwards	upwards	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 come	punct
11	until	until	SCONJ	_	13 come	mark
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 come	nsubj
13	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 go	conj
14	near	near	ADV	_	13 come	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 walls	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 walls	det
17	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 come	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 Gloucester	case
19	Gloucester	Gloucester	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 walls	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 have	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 have	cc
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 have	expl
23	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 go	conj
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 found	nsubj
25	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 have	ccomp
26	such	such	ADV	_	27 wrong	advmod
27	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 found	xcomp
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 found	mark
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 found	nsubj
30	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	31 found	advmod
31	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 wrong	advcl
32	elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	_	31 found	advmod
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 give	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 give	cc
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 end	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 end	det
37	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 give	obl
38	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 give	nsubj
39	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	41 give	nsubj
40	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 give	aux
41	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 go	conj
42	credence	credence	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 give	obj
43	thereto	thereto	ADV	_	41 give	advmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 let	punct
45	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 give	conj
46	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	45 let	obj
47	of	of	SCONJ	_	49 go	mark
48	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	49 go	nsubj
49	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 one	advcl
50	thither	thither	ADV	_	49 go	advmod
51	upon	upon	ADP	_	52 each	case
52	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	49 go	obl
53	of	of	ADP	_	56 shoulders	case
54	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 shoulders	nmod:poss
55	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	56 shoulders	nummod
56	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 each	nmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct
58	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	present	I			the river	with every tide; upwards property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme along river=Initial_Location
2	come	present	I			the walls of Gloucester	near property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wall=Initial_Location
3	have	present	I not said here			there		tree rules
4	find	past	I				wrong property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
5	not find	past	I				elsewhere property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
6	give	may	that	credence	the end		thereto property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent credence=Theme to end=Recipient
7	let	infinitive	that not said here	one				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
8	go	present	you			each	thither property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon each=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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