Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 66

Yspathaden said it was necessary that he should consult Olwen's four great-grandmothers and her four great-grand-sires.

Who acts: Yspathaden · What happens: say, be, consult · To what, where: four great grandmothers · 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 (Yspathaden), 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	Yspathaden	Yspathaden	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 necessary	expl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 necessary	cop
5	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	ccomp
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 consult	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 consult	nsubj
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 consult	aux
9	consult	consult	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 necessary	csubj
10	Olwen	Olwen	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 grandmothers	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Olwen	case
12	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 grandmothers	nummod
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 grandmothers	amod
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 great	punct
15	grandmothers	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 consult	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 sires	cc
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 sires	nmod:poss
18	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 sires	nummod
19	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 sires	amod
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 great	punct
21	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 sires	amod
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 grand	punct
23	sires	sire	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 grandmothers	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Yspathaden			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past			necessary property	tree rules
3	consult	should	Yspathaden	Olwen's four great grandmothers and Olwen's four great grand sires		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandmother=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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