Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 164

Then Goreu the son of Custennin seized him by the hair of his head and dragged him after him to the keep, and cut off his head and placed it on a stake on the citadel.

Who acts: Goreu · What happens: seize, drag, cut off, place · To what, where: Custennin, Goreu, keep, head, stake

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 (Goreu), 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	7 seized	advmod
2	Goreu	Goreu	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 seized	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 son	det
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Goreu	appos
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Custennin	case
6	Custennin	Custennin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 son	nmod
7	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 seized	obj
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 hair	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hair	det
11	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seized	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 head	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 head	nmod:poss
14	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hair	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 dragged	cc
16	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 seized	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 dragged	obj
18	after	after	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 dragged	obl
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 keep	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 keep	det
22	keep	keep	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dragged	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 cut	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 cut	cc
25	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 seized	parataxis
26	off	off	ADP	_	25 cut	compound:prt
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 head	nmod:poss
28	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 cut	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 placed	cc
30	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 cut	conj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 placed	obj
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 stake	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 stake	det
34	stake	stake	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 placed	obl
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 citadel	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 citadel	det
37	citadel	citadel	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 stake	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seize	past	Goreu	Custennin		then	by the hair of Goreu's head	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	drag	past	Goreu not said here	Goreu	the keep	after Goreu		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to keep=Destination
3	cut off	participle		Goreu's head				vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality
4	place	past		head	a stake on the citadel			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on stake=Destination

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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