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title: Thou wilt not get Mabon, for it is not known where he is, unless tho… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Thou wilt not get Mabon, for it is not known where he is, unless thou find Eidoel, his kinsman in blood, the son of Aer. Who acts: Thou, Mabon. 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 93

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Thou wilt not get Mabon, for it is not known where he is, unless thou find Eidoel, his kinsman in blood, the son of Aer.

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**Who acts:** Thou, Mabon · **What happens:** not get, not know, be, find · **To what, where:** Mabon, pledge, Eidoel · **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 (Thou, Mabon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg7885:988`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7885:17:93
# text = Thou wilt not get Mabon, for it is not known where he is, unless thou find Eidoel, his kinsman in blood, the son of Aer.
1	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	wilt	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	Mabon	Mabon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	for	for	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	expl	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	advmod	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	csubj:pass	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
19	Eidoel	Eidoel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	kinsman	kinsman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Aer	Aer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **get** | future | Thou | Mabon |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mabon=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **know** | present · passive | Thou *not said here* | pledge |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V» |
| 3 | **be** | present | Mabon |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **find** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | thou | Eidoel |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eidoel=Topic |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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