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title: "I must have thy pledge that thou wilt not do towards me otherwise t… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "I must have thy pledge that thou wilt not do towards me otherwise than is just, and when I have gotten that which I shall name, my daughter thou shalt have." Who acts: Yspathaden, thou, pledge, daughter. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Wooing of Olwen, with its dependency t
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 82

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"I must have thy pledge that thou wilt not do towards me otherwise than is just, and when I have gotten that which I shall name, my daughter thou shalt have."

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**Who acts:** Yspathaden, thou, pledge, daughter, thy · **What happens:** have, not do, be, name, pledge · **To what, where:** pledge

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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, thou, pledge, daughter), 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:pg7885:17:82
# text = "I must have thy pledge that thou wilt not do towards me otherwise than is just, and when I have gotten that which I shall name, my daughter thou shalt have."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	pledge	pledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obj	_	_
8	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nsubj	_	_
9	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl:relcl	_	_
12	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
15	than	than	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
17	just	just	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	gotten	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	name	name	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
32	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	34	nsubj	_	_
33	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | must | Yspathaden |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **do** *in a quote* | future | thou | thy pledge |  |  |  | towards Yspathaden; otherwise *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present · perfect | thy pledge |  |  |  |  | get *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **name** *in a quote* | shall |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **have** *in a quote* | shall | my daughter |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **pledge** *in a quote* |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom pledge «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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