Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 20
Go with us, and we will not part until thou dost either confess that the maiden exists not in the world, or until we obtain her."
Who acts: you, we, thou, maiden · What happens: go, not part, do, confess, not exist, obtain · To what, where: world, maiden
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 (you, we, thou, maiden), 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 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 us | case |
| 3 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Go | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 part | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 part | cc |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 part | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 part | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 part | advmod |
| 9 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Go | advcl |
| 10 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 12 dost | mark |
| 11 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 dost | nsubj |
| 12 | dost | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | advcl |
| 13 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 14 confess | cc:preconj |
| 14 | confess | confess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 dost | ccomp |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 exists | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 maiden | det |
| 17 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 exists | nsubj |
| 18 | exists | exist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 confess | ccomp |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 exists | advmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 world | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 world | det |
| 22 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 exists | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 obtain | punct |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 obtain | cc |
| 25 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 27 obtain | mark |
| 26 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 obtain | nsubj |
| 27 | obtain | obtain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | parataxis |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 obtain | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | with us | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with we=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | not part | future | we | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | do | present | thou | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | confess | present | thou not said here | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | not exist | present | the maiden | the world | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in world=Location | ||||
| 6 | obtain | present | we | maiden | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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