The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 116
O’er that stone In mirthful mood he twined an osier wreath, Cyphering thereon his name in Ogham signs: For thus he said; ‘On no man unawares Fall I, but warned.’
Who acts: O’er, man unawares · What happens: twine, cypher, say, fall, warn, name · To what, where: osier wreath, name, Ogham signs · 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 (O’er, man unawares), 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 | O’er | o'er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 twined | nsubj |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 stone | det |
| 3 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 O’er | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | In | in | ADP | _ | 6 mood | case |
| 5 | mirthful | mirthful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 mood | amod |
| 6 | mood | mood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 O’er | nmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 twined | nsubj |
| 8 | twined | twine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 wreath | det |
| 10 | osier | osier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wreath | compound |
| 11 | wreath | wreath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 twined | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Cyphering | punct |
| 13 | Cyphering | cypher | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 twined | advcl |
| 14 | thereon | thereon | ADV | _ | 13 Cyphering | advmod |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 name | nmod:poss |
| 16 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Cyphering | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 signs | case |
| 18 | Ogham | Ogham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 signs | compound |
| 19 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Cyphering | obl |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
| 21 | For | for | ADP | _ | 22 thus | case |
| 22 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 24 said | obl |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 said | nsubj |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 twined | parataxis |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 Fall | punct |
| 26 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 31 Fall | punct |
| 27 | On | on | ADP | _ | 30 unawares | case |
| 28 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 30 unawares | det |
| 29 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 unawares | compound |
| 30 | unawares | unaware | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 Fall | nsubj |
| 31 | Fall | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 said | conj |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 Fall | nsubj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 warned | punct |
| 34 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 35 warned | cc |
| 35 | warned | warn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 said | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
| 37 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | twine | past | O’er that stone in mirthful mood | a osier wreath | vn coil-9.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent wreath=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cypher | gerund | O’er that stone in mirthful mood not said here | O’er's name | Ogham signs | thereon property | tree rules | ||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | O’er = o'er | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | fall | present | no man unawares | I nsubj | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | warn speech: warn | past | O’er = o'er not said here | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | name | O’er = o'er | 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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