--- title: "It will be best," said they, "to seek Mabon the son of Modron; and… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: "It will be best," said they, "to seek Mabon the son of Modron; and he will not be found unless we first find Eidoel, the son of Aer, his kinsman." Who acts: raiment, things, we. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (raiment, things, we), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7885:17:102 # text = "It will be best," said they, "to seek Mabon the son of Modron; and he will not be found unless we first find Eidoel, the son of Aer, his kinsman." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 ccomp _ _ 5 best well ADV RBS Degree=Sup 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 8 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 seek seek VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 14 Mabon Mabon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 Modron Modron PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 22 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 24 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 26 unless unless SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 27 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 29 advmod _ _ 29 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 30 Eidoel Eidoel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 appos _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 Aer Aer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 kinsman kinsman NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** *in a quote* | future | raiment | | | | | well *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | things *= thing* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **seek** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | things *= thing* *not said here* | Mabon | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **find** *in a quote* | future · passive | | son | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 5 | **find** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | we | Eidoel | | | | first *property* | 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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/17/101/) - next →: [sentence 103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/17/103/) - ↑ back to [The Wooing of Olwen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/17/)