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title: Yspathaden said it was necessary that he should consult Olwen's four… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Yspathaden said it was necessary that he should consult Olwen's four great-grandmothers and her four great-grand-sires. Who acts: Yspathaden. 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 66

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Yspathaden said it was necessary that he should consult Olwen's four great-grandmothers and her four great-grand-sires.

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**Who acts:** Yspathaden · **What happens:** say, be, consult · **To what, where:** four great grandmothers · **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 (Yspathaden), 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:pg7885:17:66
# text = Yspathaden said it was necessary that he should consult Olwen's four great-grandmothers and her four great-grand-sires.
1	Yspathaden	Yspathaden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	expl	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	necessary	necessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	consult	consult	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	csubj	_	_
10	Olwen	Olwen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
13	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	grandmothers	grandmother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
18	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
19	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	sires	sire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Yspathaden |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | necessary *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **consult** | should | Yspathaden | Olwen's four great grandmothers and Olwen's four great grand sires |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandmother=Theme |

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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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