Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 90

He was taken from his mother when three nights old, and it is not known where he now is, nor whether he is living or dead."

Who acts: Turch · What happens: take, not know, be, live · To what, where: Turch, pledge · 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 (Turch), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 taken	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 taken	aux:pass
3	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 mother	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mother	nmod:poss
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 taken	obl
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 old	mark
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 nights	nummod
9	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 old	obl:unmarked
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 taken	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 known	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 known	cc
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 known	nsubj:pass
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 known	aux:pass
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 known	advmod
16	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 taken	conj
17	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	20 is	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 is	nsubj
19	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 is	advmod
20	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 known	ccomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 living	punct
22	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	26 living	cc
23	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	26 living	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 living	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 living	aux
26	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 taken	conj
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 dead	cc
28	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 living	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 taken	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	past · passive		Turch		from Turch's mother	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from mother=Initial_Location
2	not know	present · passive		pledge			tree rules
3	be	present	Turch		now		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	live	present · progressive	Turch				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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