Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 35
He called Gwalchmai, the son of Gwyar, because he never returned home without achieving the adventure of which he went in quest.
Who acts: Kynthelig · What happens: call, not return, achieve, go · To what, where: adventure, quest · 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 | Gwalchmai | Gwalchmai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 called | xcomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 son | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 son | det |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Gwalchmai | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Gwyar | case |
| 8 | Gwyar | Gwyar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 son | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 returned | punct |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 returned | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 returned | nsubj |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 returned | advmod |
| 13 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 called | conj |
| 14 | home | home | ADV | _ | 13 returned | advmod |
| 15 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 16 achieving | mark |
| 16 | achieving | achieve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 returned | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 adventure | det |
| 18 | adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 achieving | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 which | case |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 went | obl |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 went | nsubj |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 adventure | acl:relcl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 quest | case |
| 24 | quest | quest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 went | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | Kynthelig | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not return | past | Kynthelig | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | achieve | gerund | Kynthelig not said here | the adventure | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | go | past | Kynthelig | quest | of the adventure | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of which=Initial_Location |
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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