Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 49

They pledged their faith that they would not harm her, and a message was sent to her.

Who acts: affections · What happens: pledge, not harm, send · To what, where: faith, woman, message

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 (affections), 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 pledged	nsubj
2	pledged	pledge	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 faith	nmod:poss
4	faith	faith	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pledged	obj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 harm	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 harm	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 harm	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 harm	advmod
9	harm	harm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 pledged	advcl
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 harm	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sent	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sent	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 message	det
14	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sent	nsubj:pass
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sent	aux:pass
16	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 pledged	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 her	case
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sent	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 pledged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	pledge	past	affections = affection	affections's faith		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent faith=Theme
2	not harm	would	affections = affection	woman		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer
3	send	past · passive		a message	woman	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to she=Destination

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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