The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 72
He is reverent to both his parents--fiercely as they were at variance with each other--to age, to woman; and about him, even in his sterner moods, there plays often the joyous spirit of the child.
Who acts: Cuchullain, dealings · What happens: be, age, play · To what, where: joyous spirit
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 (Cuchullain, dealings), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reverent | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 reverent | cop |
| 3 | reverent | reverent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 parents | case |
| 5 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 7 parents | cc:preconj |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 parents | nmod:poss |
| 7 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 reverent | obl |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 variance | punct |
| 9 | fiercely | fiercely | ADV | _ | 14 variance | advmod |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 variance | case |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 variance | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 variance | cop |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 variance | case |
| 14 | variance | variance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 parents | nmod |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 each | case |
| 16 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 variance | nmod |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 each | fixed |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 age | punct |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 age | mark |
| 20 | age | age | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 reverent | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 woman | punct |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 woman | mark |
| 23 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 age | vocative |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 him | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 him | cc |
| 26 | about | about | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reverent | parataxis |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 moods | punct |
| 29 | even | even | ADV | _ | 33 moods | advmod |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 moods | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 moods | nmod:poss |
| 32 | sterner | stern | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 33 moods | amod |
| 33 | moods | mood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 him | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 plays | punct |
| 35 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 36 plays | expl |
| 36 | plays | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 reverent | conj |
| 37 | often | often | ADV | _ | 40 spirit | advmod |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 spirit | det |
| 39 | joyous | joyous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 spirit | amod |
| 40 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 plays | obj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 child | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 child | det |
| 43 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 spirit | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reverent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Cuchullain | to Cuchullain's parents; ferocity parataxis; reverent property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | dealings = dealing | as variance; with each; fiercely property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | age | to-infinitive | woman vocative | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | play | present | Cuchullain not said here | the joyous spirit of the child | there | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=Theme |
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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