The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 99
They who saw that Shape Well knew him, Fergus Roy, the Exile-King.
Who acts: hands, Shape Well · What happens: see, know · To what, where: saint
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 (hands, Shape Well), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 knew | mark |
| 5 | Shape | Shape | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Well | compound |
| 6 | Well | Well | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 knew | nsubj |
| 7 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | advcl |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 knew | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Roy | punct |
| 10 | Fergus | Fergus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Roy | compound |
| 11 | Roy | Roy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 King | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 King | det |
| 14 | Exile | Exile | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 King | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Exile | punct |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Roy | appos |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | hands = hand | who nsubj; Fergus Roy conj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | know | past | Shape Well | saint | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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