The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 100
That sight displeased Cuchullain: ne’ertheless He stayed his course; and Saltain soon drew nigh, Clamouring, ‘O son--and when was son like thee-- Forsake not thou thy father!
Who acts: sight, Saltain · What happens: displease, stay, draw, clamour, be, not forsake · To what, where: Cuchullain, course, son, thou
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sight, Saltain), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 sight | det |
| 2 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 displeased | nsubj |
| 3 | displeased | displease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Cuchullain | Cuchullain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 displeased | obj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 stayed | punct |
| 6 | ne’ertheless | ne'ertheless | ADV | _ | 8 stayed | advmod |
| 7 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 stayed | nsubj |
| 8 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 displeased | parataxis |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 course | nmod:poss |
| 10 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stayed | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 drew | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Saltain | cc |
| 13 | Saltain | Saltain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 drew | nsubj |
| 14 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 drew | advmod |
| 15 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 stayed | conj |
| 16 | nigh | nigh | ADV | _ | 15 drew | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Clamouring | punct |
| 18 | Clamouring | clamour | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 drew | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 son | punct |
| 20 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 son | punct |
| 21 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 22 son | discourse |
| 22 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Clamouring | vocative |
| 23 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 son | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 son | cc |
| 25 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 son | advmod |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 son | cop |
| 27 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 displeased | obl |
| 28 | like | like | ADP | _ | 29 thee | case |
| 29 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 27 son | nmod |
| 30 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 31 Forsake | punct |
| 31 | Forsake | forsake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 displeased | conj |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 Forsake | advmod |
| 33 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 31 Forsake | obl |
| 34 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 35 father | nmod:poss |
| 35 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 Forsake | obj |
| 36 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 displeased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | displease | past | that sight | Cuchullain | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus cuchullain=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | stay | past | sight | sight's course | ne'ertheless property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme course=Location | |||
| 3 | draw | past | Saltain | nigh, soon property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | clamour | gerund | Saltain not said here | son vocative | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | son | like thee | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not forsake | infinitive | that sight not said here | thou | thy father obj | tree rules |
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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