Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 14

Then said Arthur, "O chieftain, I have never heard of the maiden of whom thou speakest, nor of her kindred, but I will gladly send messengers in search of her."

Who acts: Arthur, thou · What happens: say, not hear, speak, send, search · To what, where: messengers, search, Kilhuch · 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 (Arthur, thou), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 said	advmod
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 chieftain	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 chieftain	punct
6	O	o	INTJ	_	7 chieftain	discourse
7	chieftain	chieftain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Arthur	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 heard	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 heard	nsubj
10	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 heard	aux
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 heard	advmod
12	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 said	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 maiden	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 maiden	det
15	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 heard	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 whom	case
17	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 maiden	nmod
18	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	19 speakest	nsubj
19	speakest	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 whom	acl:relcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 kindred	punct
21	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	24 kindred	cc
22	of	of	SCONJ	_	24 kindred	mark
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 kindred	nmod:poss
24	kindred	kindred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 heard	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 send	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 send	cc
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 send	nsubj
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 send	aux
29	gladly	gladly	ADV	_	30 send	advmod
30	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	parataxis
31	messengers	messenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 send	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 search	case
33	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 send	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 her	case
35	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 search	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 send	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 send	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Arthur			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not hear in a quote	present · perfect	Arthur				of the maiden	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of maiden=Stimulus
3	speak speech: other in a quote	present	thou					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	send in a quote	future	Arthur	messengers	search of Kilhuch		gladly property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme in search=Destination
5	search in a quote			Kilhuch				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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