The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 112
Saltain made answer: ‘Be it! northward I: But Dectara, thy mother, and my wife, Till thou art by my side I will not see; For dreadful are her eyes as death or fate; And many deem her mad.’
Who acts: Saltain, I, eyes, many · What happens: make, be, not see, deem · To what, where: answer, side, wife
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 (Saltain, I, eyes, many), 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 | Saltain | Saltain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 it | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 it | punct |
| 6 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 it | cop |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 made | obl |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 it | punct |
| 9 | northward | northward | ADV | _ | 10 I | advmod |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 made | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 Dectara | punct |
| 12 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 Dectara | cc |
| 13 | Dectara | Dectara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 made | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 mother | punct |
| 15 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 mother | nmod:poss |
| 16 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Dectara | appos |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 wife | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 wife | cc |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 wife | nmod:poss |
| 20 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Dectara | appos |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 art | punct |
| 22 | Till | till | SCONJ | _ | 24 art | mark |
| 23 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 24 art | nsubj |
| 24 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | parataxis |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 side | case |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 side | nmod:poss |
| 27 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 art | obl |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 see | nsubj |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 see | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 see | advmod |
| 31 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 side | acl:relcl |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 are | punct |
| 33 | For | for | ADP | _ | 34 dreadful | case |
| 34 | dreadful | dreadful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 are | obl |
| 35 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 37 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 are | nsubj |
| 38 | as | as | ADP | _ | 39 death | case |
| 39 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 are | obl |
| 40 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 41 fate | cc |
| 41 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 death | conj |
| 42 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 45 deem | punct |
| 43 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 deem | cc |
| 44 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 deem | nsubj |
| 45 | deem | deem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 46 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 deem | obj |
| 47 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 deem | xcomp |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
| 49 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Saltain | answer | I obl; Dectara parataxis | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Product | |||
| 2 | is a | infinitive | answer | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not see | future | I | my side not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer side=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | does | present | wife's eyes | for dreadful; as death or fate | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | deem | present | many | wife | mad property | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent she=Attribute |
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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