The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 18
That tale recalling King Ailill laughed: his laughter roused the queen: She woke in wrath: to assuage her Ailill spake; ‘Happy and blest that dame whose lord is sage!
Who acts: tale, laughter, Ailill, dame · What happens: recall, laugh, rouse, wake, assuage, be · To what, where: King Ailill, queen, wrath, Ailill spake
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 (tale, laughter, Ailill, dame), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 tale | det |
| 2 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 laughed | nsubj |
| 3 | recalling | recall | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 tale | acl |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Ailill | compound |
| 5 | Ailill | Ailill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 recalling | obj |
| 6 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 roused | punct |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 laughter | nmod:poss |
| 9 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 roused | nsubj |
| 10 | roused | rouse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 laughed | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 queen | det |
| 12 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 roused | obj |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 woke | punct |
| 14 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 woke | nsubj |
| 15 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 roused | parataxis |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 wrath | case |
| 17 | wrath | wrath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 woke | obl |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 assuage | punct |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 assuage | mark |
| 20 | assuage | assuage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 woke | conj |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 spake | nmod:poss |
| 22 | Ailill | Ailill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 spake | compound |
| 23 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 assuage | obj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 Happy | punct |
| 25 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 Happy | punct |
| 26 | Happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 laughed | parataxis |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 blest | cc |
| 28 | blest | blest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Happy | conj |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 sage | mark |
| 30 | dame | dame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 sage | nsubj |
| 31 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 32 lord | nmod:poss |
| 32 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 dame | appos |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 sage | cop |
| 34 | sage | sage | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Happy | advcl |
| 35 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recall | gerund | that tale not said here | King Ailill | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ailill=Theme | ||||
| 2 | laugh | past | that tale | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | rouse | past | tale's laughter | the queen | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Patient | ||||
| 4 | wake | past | Ailill | wrath | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | assuage | to-infinitive | Ailill not said here | Ailill's Ailill spake | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus speak=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | is | present | dame | sage property | 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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