The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 75
The one blemish in Cuchullain’s life, his desertion of Aifné, his boyhood’s love in Scatha’s Island, for a rival whose chief attraction was perhaps that she could only be won by force of arms, is an episode not included within the scope of the Tain.
Who acts: force, one blemish, Cuchullain, boyhood, rival · What happens: win, be, not include, desert, love, attract · To what, where: invader, episode, Aifné, Island
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 (force, one blemish, Cuchullain, boyhood), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 blemish | det |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 blemish | nummod |
| 3 | blemish | blemish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 episode | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 life | case |
| 5 | Cuchullain | Cuchullain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 life | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 Cuchullain | case |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blemish | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 desertion | punct |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 desertion | nmod:poss |
| 10 | desertion | desertion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blemish | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Aifné | case |
| 12 | Aifné | Aifné | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 desertion | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 love | punct |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 boyhood | nmod:poss |
| 15 | boyhood | boyhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 love | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 boyhood | case |
| 17 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blemish | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 Island | case |
| 19 | Scatha | Scatha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Island | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 Scatha | case |
| 21 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 love | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 rival | punct |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 rival | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 rival | det |
| 25 | rival | rival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blemish | conj |
| 26 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 28 attraction | nmod:poss |
| 27 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 attraction | amod |
| 28 | attraction | attraction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 rival | nmod |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 won | aux:pass |
| 30 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 36 won | advmod |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 won | mark |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 won | nsubj |
| 33 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 won | aux |
| 34 | only | only | ADV | _ | 36 won | advmod |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 won | aux:pass |
| 36 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 attraction | acl:relcl |
| 37 | by | by | ADP | _ | 38 force | case |
| 38 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 won | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 arms | case |
| 40 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 force | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 blemish | punct |
| 42 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 episode | cop |
| 43 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 episode | det |
| 44 | episode | episode | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 45 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 46 included | advmod |
| 46 | included | include | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 44 episode | acl |
| 47 | within | within | ADP | _ | 49 scope | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 scope | det |
| 49 | scope | scope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 included | obl |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 Tain | case |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 Tain | det |
| 52 | Tain | Tain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 scope | nmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 44 episode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | could · past · passive | force of arms | invader | perhaps property | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | is a | present | the one blemish in Cuchullain's life and Cuchullain's desertion of Aifné and Cuchullain's boyhood's love in Scatha's Island and a rival a rival chief attraction's chief attraction | a episode | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not include | participle | a episode not said here | within the scope of the Tain | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | desert | Cuchullain | Aifné | nom desertion «act transitive»: poss=agent of=patient | |||||
| 5 | love | Cuchullain's boyhood | Scatha's Island | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent in=place | |||||
| 6 | attract | a rival a rival chief attraction's chief attraction | nom attraction «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |
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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