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title: _Source_.--The _Mabinogi_ of Kulhwych and Olwen from the translation… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _Source_.--The _Mabinogi_ of Kulhwych and Olwen from the translation of Lady Guest, abridged. Who acts: Lady. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIII. the Wooing of Olwen., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XIII. the Wooing of Olwen., sentence 1

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\_Source\_.--The \_Mabinogi\_ of Kulhwych and Olwen from the translation of Lady Guest, abridged.

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**Who acts:** Lady · **What happens:** abridge, translate

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIII. 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 (Lady), 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:pg7885:47:1
# text = _Source_.--The _Mabinogi_ of Kulhwych and Olwen from the translation of Lady Guest, abridged.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Source	source	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.--	.--	SYM	NFP	_	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Mabinogi	Mabinogi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Kulhwych	Kulhwych	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	Olwen	Olwen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	translation	translation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Lady	Lady	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	Guest	Guest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	abridged	abridge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **abridge** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **translate** |  | Lady |  |  |  |  |  | nom translation «communication intransitive»: of=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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