The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 140
Setanta heard Then first that cry forth issuing from the heart Of him whose labour wins his children’s bread; That cry he honours yet.
Who acts: Setanta, that, labour, cry · What happens: hear, cry, issue, win, honour · To what, where: bread, heart · 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 (Setanta, that, labour, cry), 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 | Setanta | Setanta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 cry | advmod |
| 4 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 cry | advmod |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 cry | nsubj |
| 6 | cry | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 heard | ccomp |
| 7 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 6 cry | advmod |
| 8 | issuing | issue | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 cry | advcl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 heart | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 heart | det |
| 11 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wins | obl |
| 12 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 heart | nmod |
| 14 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 15 labour | nmod:poss |
| 15 | labour | labour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wins | nsubj |
| 16 | wins | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 issuing | conj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 children | nmod:poss |
| 18 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 bread | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 children | case |
| 20 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wins | obj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 honours | punct |
| 22 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 cry | det |
| 23 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 honours | nsubj |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 honours | nsubj |
| 25 | honours | honour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 heard | conj |
| 26 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 25 honours | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Setanta | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | present | that | then | first, forth property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | issue | gerund | that not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | win | present | labour | Setanta's children's bread | the heart of Setanta | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent bread=Theme from heart=Source | |||
| 5 | honour | present | that cry | yet | 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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