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title: And Arthur called Bedwyr, who never shrank from any enterprise upon… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And Arthur called Bedwyr, who never shrank from any enterprise upon which Kay was bound. Who acts: Arthur, Bedwyr. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Wooing of Olwen, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 27

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And Arthur called Bedwyr, who never shrank from any enterprise upon which Kay was bound.

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**Who acts:** Arthur, Bedwyr · **What happens:** call, not shrink, bind · **To what, where:** Bedwyr, Kay · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Arthur, Bedwyr), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg7885:17:27
# text = And Arthur called Bedwyr, who never shrank from any enterprise upon which Kay was bound.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Bedwyr	Bedwyr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	shrank	shrink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	enterprise	enterprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obl	_	_
14	Kay	Kay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past | Arthur |  | Bedwyr |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bedwyr=Recipient |
| 2 | **not** **shrink** | past | Bedwyr |  |  |  |  | from any enterprise | vn flinch-40.5 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer from enterprise=Stimulus |
| 3 | **bind** | past · passive |  | Kay |  |  |  | upon any enterprise | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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.

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**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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