The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 102
At that word Cuchullain left his car, and kissed his sire, And soothed his wandering wits with meat and wine; And spake dissembling; ‘lo, these mantles warm!
Who acts: Cuchullain · What happens: leave, kiss, soothe, wonder, speak, dissemble · To what, where: car, word, sire, wandering wits · 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 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cuchullain), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 word | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 word | det |
| 3 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 left | obl |
| 4 | Cuchullain | Cuchullain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 left | nsubj |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 car | nmod:poss |
| 7 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 left | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 kissed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 kissed | cc |
| 10 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 sire | nmod:poss |
| 12 | sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 kissed | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 soothed | punct |
| 14 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 soothed | cc |
| 15 | soothed | soothe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 wits | nmod:poss |
| 17 | wandering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 wits | amod |
| 18 | wits | wit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 soothed | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 meat | case |
| 20 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 soothed | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 wine | cc |
| 22 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 meat | conj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 spake | punct |
| 24 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 spake | cc |
| 25 | spake | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 left | conj |
| 26 | dissembling | dissemble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 spake | obj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 mantles | punct |
| 28 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 lo | punct |
| 29 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 32 mantles | discourse |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 lo | punct |
| 31 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 29 lo | vocative |
| 32 | mantles | mantle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | parataxis |
| 33 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 mantles | xcomp |
| 34 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | Cuchullain | Cuchullain's car | that word | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent car=Theme at word=Location | |||
| 2 | kiss | past | Cuchullain not said here | Cuchullain's sire | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sire=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | soothe | past | Cuchullain not said here | Cuchullain's wandering wits | with meat and wine | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus wit=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | speak speech: other | infinitive | Cuchullain not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | dissemble | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | mantle | present | warm property | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=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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