Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 94

For it would be useless to seek for him.

Who acts: it · What happens: be, seek

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), 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	For	for	ADP	_	5 useless	case
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 useless	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 useless	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 useless	cop
5	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 seek	mark
7	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 useless	xcomp
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 seek	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 useless	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	it					useless property	tree rules
2	seek	to-infinitive						for Mabon	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for he=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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