The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 102
Straight, with help It may be, of the bards, Saint Kiaran wrote The Heroic Song on parchment fine, the skin Of one he loved, his ‘little heifer grey’ That gave the book its name.
Who acts: help, Saint, That · What happens: be, write, love, give, name · To what, where: Heroic Song, parchment, book
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 (help, Saint, That), 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 | Straight | straight | ADV | _ | 15 wrote | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Straight | punct |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 help | case |
| 4 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wrote | obl |
| 5 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 bards | nsubj |
| 6 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 bards | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 bards | cop |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bards | punct |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 bards | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bards | det |
| 11 | bards | bard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 help | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 help | punct |
| 13 | Saint | Saint | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 wrote | nsubj |
| 14 | Kiaran | Kiaran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Saint | flat |
| 15 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Song | det |
| 17 | Heroic | heroic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Song | amod |
| 18 | Song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wrote | obj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 parchment | case |
| 20 | parchment | parchment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wrote | obl |
| 21 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 parchment | amod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 skin | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 skin | det |
| 24 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 parchment | appos |
| 25 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 26 one | case |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 skin | nmod |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 loved | nsubj |
| 28 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 one | acl:relcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 gave | punct |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 gave | nmod:poss |
| 31 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 34 grey | punct |
| 32 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 heifer | amod |
| 33 | heifer | heifer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 grey | obl:unmarked |
| 34 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 gave | advcl |
| 35 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 34 grey | punct |
| 36 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 37 gave | nsubj |
| 37 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 wrote | conj |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 book | det |
| 39 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 gave | obj |
| 40 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 name | nmod:poss |
| 41 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 gave | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 wrote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | may | help | of the bards | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | write | past | Saint | the Heroic Song | parchment | with help and the bards; straight property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent song=Theme on parchment=Destination | ||
| 3 | love | past | saint | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | give | past | That | the book | saint nmod:poss; help's name obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent book=Recipient name=Theme | |||
| 5 | name | help | nom name «communication 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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