Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 89
It will not be possible to hunt Turch Truith without Drudwyn the whelp of Greid, the son of Eri, and know that throughout the world there is not a huntsman who can hunt with this dog, except Mabon the son of Modron.
Who acts: It, huntsman · What happens: not be, hunt, know · To what, where: Turch, huntsman · 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 (It, huntsman), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 possible | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 possible | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 possible | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 possible | cop |
| 5 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 hunt | mark |
| 7 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 possible | csubj |
| 8 | Turch | Turch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 hunt | obj |
| 9 | Truith | Truith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Turch | flat |
| 10 | without | without | ADP | _ | 11 Drudwyn | case |
| 11 | Drudwyn | Drudwyn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Turch | nmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 whelp | det |
| 13 | whelp | whelp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Turch | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Greid | case |
| 15 | Greid | Greid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 whelp | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 son | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 son | det |
| 18 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Turch | appos |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Eri | case |
| 20 | Eri | Eri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 son | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 know | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 know | cc |
| 23 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 possible | parataxis |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 huntsman | mark |
| 25 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 27 world | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 world | det |
| 27 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 is | obl |
| 28 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 29 is | expl |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 huntsman | cop |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 huntsman | advmod |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 huntsman | det |
| 32 | huntsman | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 know | ccomp |
| 33 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 hunt | nsubj |
| 34 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 hunt | aux |
| 35 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 huntsman | acl:relcl |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 dog | case |
| 37 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 38 dog | det |
| 38 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 hunt | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 Mabon | punct |
| 40 | except | except | ADP | _ | 41 Mabon | case |
| 41 | Mabon | Mabon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 hunt | obl |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 son | det |
| 43 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 Mabon | appos |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 Modron | case |
| 45 | Modron | Modron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 son | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 possible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | future | It | possible property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hunt | to-infinitive | Turch | without Drudwyn | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turch=Theme | ||||
| 3 | know | present | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | not is a | present | a huntsman | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | hunt | can | a huntsman | with this dog; except Mabon | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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