The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 15
He had not chosen her: She chose a consort who should rule her not, And tossed him to her throne.
Who acts: husband, warrioress, consort · What happens: not choose, choose, not rule, toss · To what, where: warrioress, consort, husband, throne
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 (husband, warrioress, consort), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 chosen | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 chosen | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 chosen | advmod |
| 4 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 chosen | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 chose | punct |
| 7 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 chose | nsubj |
| 8 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 chosen | parataxis |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 consort | det |
| 10 | consort | consort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 chose | obj |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 rule | nsubj |
| 12 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 rule | aux |
| 13 | rule | rule | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 consort | acl:relcl |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 rule | obj |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 rule | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 tossed | punct |
| 17 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 tossed | cc |
| 18 | tossed | toss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 chose | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 tossed | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 throne | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 throne | nmod:poss |
| 22 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tossed | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 chosen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not choose | past · perfect | husband | warrioress | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | choose | past | warrioress | a consort | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consort=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not rule | should | a consort | warrioress | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Result | ||||
| 4 | toss | past | warrioress not said here | husband | warrioress's throne | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Patient to throne=Recipient |
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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