Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 34
He called Gwrhyr Gwalstawt Ieithoedd, because he knew all tongues.
Who acts: Kynthelig · What happens: call, know · To what, where: Gwrhyr, tongues · 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 (Kynthelig), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 called | nsubj |
| 2 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Gwrhyr | Gwrhyr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 called | obj |
| 4 | Gwalstawt | Gwalstawt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Gwrhyr | flat |
| 5 | Ieithoedd | Ieithoedd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Gwrhyr | flat |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 knew | punct |
| 7 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 knew | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 knew | nsubj |
| 9 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 called | parataxis |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 tongues | det |
| 11 | tongues | tongue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 knew | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | past | Kynthelig | Gwrhyr | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent gwrhyr=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | know | past | Kynthelig | all tongues | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer tongue=Stimulus |
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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