Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 42

They told their errand to the herdsman, who endeavoured to dissuade them, since none who had come thither on that quest had returned alive.

Who acts: nephew, herdsman, none · What happens: tell, endeavour, dissuade, come, return · To what, where: errand, nephew, 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 (nephew, herdsman, none), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 errand	nmod:poss
4	errand	errand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	iobj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 herdsman	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 herdsman	det
7	herdsman	herdsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 endeavoured	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 endeavoured	nsubj
10	endeavoured	endeavour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 herdsman	acl:relcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 dissuade	mark
12	dissuade	dissuade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 endeavoured	xcomp
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 dissuade	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 come	punct
15	since	since	SCONJ	_	19 come	mark
16	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	19 come	nsubj
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 come	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 come	aux
19	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 told	parataxis
20	thither	thither	ADV	_	19 come	advmod
21	on	on	SCONJ	_	25 returned	mark
22	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 quest	det
23	quest	quest	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 returned	nsubj:pass
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 returned	aux
25	returned	return	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 come	advcl
26	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 returned	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	nephew		nephew's errand	to the herdsman	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent errand=Topic to herdsman=Recipient
2	endeavour	past	the herdsman				tree rules
3	dissuade	to-infinitive	the herdsman not said here	nephew			vn discourage-64.5 «NP V NP PP.eventuality»: agent=Causer they=Beneficiary
4	come	past · perfect	none			thither property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	return	past · perfect · passive		that quest		alive property	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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