Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 141
And the voice replied, "Alas, it is Mabon, the son of Modron, who is here imprisoned!"
Who acts: voice · What happens: reply, be, imprison · To what, where: Mabon, son · 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 (voice), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 replied | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 voice | det |
| 3 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Mabon | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Mabon | punct |
| 7 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 11 Mabon | discourse |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Alas | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 Mabon | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 Mabon | cop |
| 11 | Mabon | Mabon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 replied | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 son | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 son | det |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Mabon | appos |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Modron | case |
| 16 | Modron | Modron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 son | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 imprisoned | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 imprisoned | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 imprisoned | aux:pass |
| 20 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 imprisoned | advmod |
| 21 | imprisoned | imprison | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 son | acl:relcl |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 21 imprisoned | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Mabon | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: express | participle | the voice | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | voice | Mabon | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | imprison in a quote | present · passive | the son of Modron | here | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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