The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 128
On Eman Macha[28] ever was his thought, Its walls, its bulwarks, and its Red Branch Knights, The wonder of the world.’
What happens: be, wonder · To what, where: thought, Eman, world
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: 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 2 Eman | case |
| 2 | Eman | Eman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 thought | obl |
| 3 | Macha | Macha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Eman | flat |
| 4 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 5 28 | punct |
| 5 | 28 | 28 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 Eman | appos |
| 6 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 5 28 | punct |
| 7 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 28 | advmod |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 thought | cop |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 thought | nmod:poss |
| 10 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 walls | punct |
| 12 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 walls | nmod:poss |
| 13 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 thought | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bulwarks | punct |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 bulwarks | nmod:poss |
| 16 | bulwarks | bulwark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 walls | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Knights | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Knights | cc |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 Branch | nmod:poss |
| 20 | Red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Branch | amod |
| 21 | Branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Knights | nsubj |
| 22 | Knights | Knight | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 thought | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 wonder | punct |
| 24 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 wonder | det |
| 25 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Knights | appos |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 world | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 world | det |
| 28 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wonder | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Eman's thought and banquet's walls and banquet's bulwarks | Eman | Knights banquet's Red Branch nmod; banquet's walls and banquet's bulwarks conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | wonder | the world | nom wonder «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/11/128/