The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 101
Marbhan spoke Once more; ‘Lest Erin lose again this Tale Through fraud of demons or all-wasting time, Amid yon Saints elect some scribe, their best, And pray that scribe to write it.’
Who acts: Marbhan, Saints · What happens: speak, lose, waste, elect, pray, write · To what, where: Tale, fraud, scribe · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Marbhan, Saints), 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 | Marbhan | Marbhan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 spoke | nsubj |
| 2 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 spoke | advmod |
| 4 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 spoke | advmod |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 lose | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 lose | punct |
| 7 | Lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 8 Erin | case |
| 8 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 lose | obl |
| 9 | lose | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 spoke | advcl |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 lose | advmod |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 Tale | det |
| 12 | Tale | Tale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 lose | obj |
| 13 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 14 fraud | case |
| 14 | fraud | fraud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lose | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 demons | case |
| 16 | demons | demon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 fraud | nmod |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 time | cc |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 time | det |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 all | punct |
| 20 | wasting | waste | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 time | amod |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 demons | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 yon | punct |
| 23 | Amid | Amid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 yon | compound |
| 24 | yon | yon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fraud | conj |
| 25 | Saints | Saint | PROPN | Number=Plur | 26 elect | nsubj |
| 26 | elect | elect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 yon | acl:relcl |
| 27 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 scribe | det |
| 28 | scribe | scribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 elect | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 best | punct |
| 30 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 best | nmod:poss |
| 31 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 yon | appos |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 pray | punct |
| 33 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 pray | cc |
| 34 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 spoke | parataxis |
| 35 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 scribe | det |
| 36 | scribe | scribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 pray | obj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 write | mark |
| 38 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 pray | advcl |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 write | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spoke | punct |
| 41 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | Marbhan | once property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | lose | present | Marbhan not said here | this Tale | fraud of demons or all wasting time and Amid yon | again | lest Erin | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Eventuality | |
| 3 | waste | gerund | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | elect | present | Saints | some scribe | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scribe=Theme | ||||
| 5 | pray | present | that scribe | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | write | to-infinitive | tale | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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