The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 16
In youth her lord Was Conor Conchobar, great Uladh’s King: She had not found him docile to her will, And to her sire returned.
Who acts: lord, warrioress · What happens: be, not find, return · To what, where: Conor, husband, youth
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 (lord, warrioress), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 youth | case |
| 2 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 returned | obl |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 lord | nmod:poss |
| 4 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Conor | nsubj |
| 5 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Conor | cop |
| 6 | Conor | Conor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 youth | appos |
| 7 | Conchobar | Conchobar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Conor | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 King | punct |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 King | amod |
| 10 | Uladh | Uladh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 King | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 Uladh | case |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Conor | appos |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 found | punct |
| 14 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 found | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 found | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 found | advmod |
| 17 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 youth | acl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 found | obj |
| 19 | docile | docile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 found | xcomp |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 will | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 will | nmod:poss |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 docile | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 returned | punct |
| 24 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 returned | cc |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 sire | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 sire | nmod:poss |
| 27 | sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 returned | obl |
| 28 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | warrioress's lord | Conor | Uladh's great King appos | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not find | past · perfect | warrioress | husband | docile property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | |||
| 3 | return | past | youth | to warrioress's sire result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to sire=Result |
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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