Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 93
Thou wilt not get Mabon, for it is not known where he is, unless thou find Eidoel, his kinsman in blood, the son of Aer.
Who acts: Thou, Mabon · What happens: not get, not know, be, find · To what, where: Mabon, pledge, Eidoel · 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 (Thou, Mabon), 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:pg7885:988): 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 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 get | nsubj |
| 2 | wilt | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 get | advmod |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | Mabon | Mabon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 get | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 known | punct |
| 7 | for | for | CCONJ | _ | 11 known | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 known | expl |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 known | aux:pass |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 known | advmod |
| 11 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 get | conj |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 is | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 is | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 known | csubj:pass |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 find | punct |
| 16 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 18 find | mark |
| 17 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 find | nsubj |
| 18 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | advcl |
| 19 | Eidoel | Eidoel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 find | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 kinsman | punct |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 kinsman | nmod:poss |
| 22 | kinsman | kinsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Eidoel | appos |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 blood | case |
| 24 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 kinsman | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 son | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 son | det |
| 27 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Eidoel | appos |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Aer | case |
| 29 | Aer | Aer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 son | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get | future | Thou | Mabon | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mabon=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not know | present · passive | Thou not said here | pledge | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V» | ||||
| 3 | be | present | Mabon | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | find a condition, not said to happen | present | thou | Eidoel | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eidoel=Topic |
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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