Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 27
And Arthur called Bedwyr, who never shrank from any enterprise upon which Kay was bound.
Who acts: Arthur, Bedwyr · What happens: call, not shrink, bind · To what, where: Bedwyr, Kay · 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, Bedwyr), 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 | _ | 3 called | cc |
| 2 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 called | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Bedwyr | Bedwyr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 called | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 shrank | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 shrank | nsubj |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 shrank | advmod |
| 8 | shrank | shrink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Bedwyr | acl:relcl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 enterprise | case |
| 10 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 enterprise | det |
| 11 | enterprise | enterprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shrank | obl |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 which | case |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 bound | obl |
| 14 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 bound | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 bound | aux:pass |
| 16 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 enterprise | acl:relcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | Arthur | Bedwyr | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bedwyr=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | not shrink | past | Bedwyr | from any enterprise | vn flinch-40.5 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer from enterprise=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | bind | past · passive | Kay | upon any enterprise | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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