Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 69
"A cursed ungentle son-in-law, truly," says he, "the hard iron pains me like the bite of a horse-leech.
Who acts: Menw, hard iron · What happens: curse, say, pain, bite · To what, where: Menw, horse leech · 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 (Menw, hard iron), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7885:973): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 son | det |
| 3 | cursed | curse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 son | amod |
| 4 | ungentle | ungentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 son | amod |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 law | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 law | case |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 in | punct |
| 9 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 son | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 truly | punct |
| 11 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 5 son | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 14 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 son | parataxis |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 says | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 says | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 pains | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 iron | det |
| 19 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 iron | amod |
| 20 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pains | nsubj |
| 21 | pains | pain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 son | parataxis |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 pains | obj |
| 23 | like | like | ADP | _ | 25 bite | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 bite | det |
| 25 | bite | bite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pains | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 leech | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 leech | det |
| 28 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 leech | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 horse | punct |
| 30 | leech | leech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bite | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 pains | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | curse in a quote | participle | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Menw | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | pain in a quote | present | the hard iron | Menw | like the bite of a horse leech | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | bite in a quote | a horse leech | nom bite «state transitive»: of=patient |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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