Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 144
Then Arthur summoned unto him all the warriors that were in the three islands of Britain and in the three islands adjacent; and he went as far as Esgeir Ocrvel in Ireland where the Boar Truith was with his seven young pigs.
Who acts: Arthur, Boar Truith · What happens: summon, go, be · To what, where: warriors, Ireland
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, Boar Truith), 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 | 3 summoned | advmod |
| 2 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 summoned | nsubj |
| 3 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 summoned | obl |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 warriors | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 warriors | det |
| 8 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 summoned | obj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 were | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 warriors | acl:relcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 islands | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 islands | det |
| 13 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 islands | nummod |
| 14 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 were | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Britain | case |
| 16 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 islands | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 islands | cc |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 islands | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 islands | det |
| 20 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 islands | nummod |
| 21 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 Britain | conj |
| 22 | adjacent | adjacent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 islands | amod |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 went | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 went | cc |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 went | nsubj |
| 26 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 summoned | conj |
| 27 | as | as | ADV | _ | 28 far | advmod |
| 28 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 went | advmod |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 Esgeir | case |
| 30 | Esgeir | Esgeir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 far | obl |
| 31 | Ocrvel | Ocrvel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Esgeir | flat |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 Ireland | case |
| 33 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 went | obl |
| 34 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 43 pigs | advmod |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Truith | det |
| 36 | Boar | Boar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Truith | compound |
| 37 | Truith | Truith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 pigs | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 pigs | cop |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 43 pigs | case |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 pigs | nmod:poss |
| 41 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 43 pigs | nummod |
| 42 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 pigs | amod |
| 43 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 went | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 summoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | summon | past | Arthur | all warriors | then | unto Bedwyr | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warrior=Recipient | ||
| 2 | go | past | Arthur | Ireland | far property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in ireland=Location | |||
| 3 | is | past | the Boar Truith | with Arthur's seven young pigs | tree rules |
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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