--- title: After that I went with my whole kindred to attack him and to try to… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: After that I went with my whole kindred to attack him and to try to destroy him, but he sent messengers and made peace with me, and came and besought me to take fifty fish-spears out of his back. Who acts: I, rock. 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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 (I, rock), 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:pg7885:17:133 # text = After that I went with my whole kindred to attack him and to try to destroy him, but he sent messengers and made peace with me, and came and besought me to take fifty fish-spears out of his back. 1 After after ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 obl _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 with with SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 6 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 kindred kindred ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 attack attack VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 11 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 try try VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 destroy destroy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 22 messengers messenger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 25 peace peace NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 besought beseech VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 33 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ _ 36 fifty fifty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ _ 37 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 38 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 spears spear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 40 out out ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | I | | | | after that | kindred *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **attack** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | rock | | | | | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | | 3 | **try** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **destroy** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | rock | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | | 5 | **send** | past | rock | messengers | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme | | 6 | **make** | past | I *not said here* | peace | | | | with me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset peace=Product | | 7 | **come** | past | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **beseech** | past | | me | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **take** | to-infinitive | | fifty fish spears | | rock's back | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent spear=Theme out back=Initial\_Location | 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 132](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/17/132/) - next →: [sentence 134](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/17/134/) - ↑ back to [The Wooing of Olwen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/17/)