The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 63
It was then that Fergus Mac Roy reigned over Uladh, now Ulster; but he renounced his throne, incensed at seeing his wily stepson preferred to him, and was exiled because he had revenged the murder of Usnach’s sons.
Who acts: greatness, Mac · What happens: be, renounce, incense, see, prefer, exile · To what, where: Uladh, throne, wily stepson, Mac, murder, sons
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (greatness, Mac), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 reigned | nsubj:outer |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 reigned | cop |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 reigned | advmod |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 reigned | mark |
| 5 | Fergus | Fergus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Mac | compound |
| 6 | Mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 reigned | nsubj |
| 7 | Roy | Roy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Mac | flat |
| 8 | reigned | reign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 Uladh | case |
| 10 | Uladh | Uladh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 reigned | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Ulster | punct |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 Ulster | advmod |
| 13 | Ulster | Ulster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Uladh | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 renounced | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 renounced | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 renounced | nsubj |
| 17 | renounced | renounce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 reigned | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 throne | nmod:poss |
| 19 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 renounced | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 incensed | punct |
| 21 | incensed | incense | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 renounced | conj |
| 22 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 23 seeing | mark |
| 23 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 incensed | advcl |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 stepson | nmod:poss |
| 25 | wily | wily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 stepson | amod |
| 26 | stepson | stepson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 seeing | obj |
| 27 | preferred | prefer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 stepson | acl |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 him | case |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 preferred | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 exiled | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 exiled | cc |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 exiled | aux:pass |
| 33 | exiled | exile | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 renounced | conj |
| 34 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 37 revenged | mark |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 revenged | nsubj |
| 36 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 revenged | aux |
| 37 | revenged | revenge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 33 exiled | advcl |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 murder | det |
| 39 | murder | murder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 revenged | obj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 sons | case |
| 41 | Usnach | Usnach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 sons | nmod:poss |
| 42 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 41 Usnach | case |
| 43 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 murder | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 reigned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | greatness | Uladh and Ulster | then | Fergus Mac nsubj; reign property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | renounce | past | Mac | Mac's throne | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent throne=Source | ||||
| 3 | incense | participle | Mac not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | see | gerund | Mac not said here | Mac's wily stepson | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stepson=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | prefer | participle | Mac's wily stepson not said here | Mac | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | exile | past · passive | Mac not said here | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 7 | revenge | past · perfect | Mac | the murder of Usnach's sons | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | murder | Usnach's sons | nom murder «act transitive»: of=patient |
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.
Text: «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Project Gutenberg book 78491 (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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