The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 181
Fergus knew the man, Fergus alone; nor yet divulged his name, Oft muttering, ‘These be men who fight for Bulls-- I war to shake a Perjurer from his throne, And count no brave man foe.’
Who acts: Fergus, men, I, man · What happens: know, divulge, be, fight, war, shake · To what, where: man, name, men, Perjurer, throne, brave man foe
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 (Fergus, men, I, man), 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 | Fergus | Fergus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knew | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Fergus | punct |
| 6 | Fergus | Fergus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 man | appos |
| 7 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 2 knew | advmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 divulged | punct |
| 9 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 11 divulged | cc |
| 10 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 11 divulged | advmod |
| 11 | divulged | divulge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 knew | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 name | nmod:poss |
| 13 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 divulged | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 muttering | punct |
| 15 | Oft | oft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 muttering | amod |
| 16 | muttering | muttering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 name | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 men | punct |
| 18 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 men | punct |
| 19 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 21 men | det |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 men | cop |
| 21 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 divulged | obl |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 fight | nsubj |
| 23 | fight | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 men | acl:relcl |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 Bulls | case |
| 25 | Bulls | bull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 fight | obl |
| 26 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 28 war | punct |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 war | nsubj |
| 28 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 men | nmod |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 shake | mark |
| 30 | shake | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 war | acl |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 Perjurer | det |
| 32 | Perjurer | Perjurer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 shake | obj |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 35 throne | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 throne | nmod:poss |
| 35 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 shake | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 count | punct |
| 37 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 count | cc |
| 38 | count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 shake | conj |
| 39 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 42 foe | det |
| 40 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 foe | amod |
| 41 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 foe | compound |
| 42 | foe | foe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 count | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
| 44 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Fergus | the man | alone property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | divulge speech: other | past | Fergus not said here | man's name and Oft muttering | yet | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent name=Topic | |||
| 3 | is a | infinitive | this men | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | fight | present | this men | for Bulls | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | war | I | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | shake | to-infinitive | a Perjurer | man's throne | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent perjurer=Theme from throne=Trajectory | ||||
| 7 | count | infinitive | no brave man foe | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foe=Theme | |||||
| 8 | name | man | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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