Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 43

They gave to him a gold ring, which he conveyed to his wife, telling her who the visitors were.

Who acts: nephew, gold ring, visitors · What happens: give, convey, tell, be · To what, where: gold ring, herdsman, wife · 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, gold ring, visitors), 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 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	obl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ring	det
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ring	compound
7	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 conveyed	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 conveyed	nsubj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 conveyed	nsubj
11	conveyed	convey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ring	acl:relcl
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 wife	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 wife	nmod:poss
14	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 conveyed	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 telling	punct
16	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 gave	advcl
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 telling	iobj
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	16 telling	ccomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 visitors	det
20	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 who	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 who	cop
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	give	past	nephew	a gold ring	herdsman	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent ring=Theme to he=Recipient
2	convey	past	a gold ring		herdsman's wife	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient
3	tell speech: assert	gerund	nephew not said here		wife	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
4	is a	past	the visitors			tree rules

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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