The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 182
Again at feast Ailill made question of the Red Branch Knights: Fergus replied; ‘Cuchullain is their best: I taught him arms!
Who acts: Ailill, Fergus, Cuchullain, I · What happens: make, reply, be, teach, question · To what, where: question, feast, arms, Cuchullain, Branch Knights
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 (Ailill, Fergus, Cuchullain, I), 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 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 5 made | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 feast | case |
| 3 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obl |
| 4 | Ailill | Ailill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 made | nsubj |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Knights | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Knights | det |
| 9 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Branch | flat |
| 10 | Branch | Branch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Knights | compound |
| 11 | Knights | Knight | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 question | nmod |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 replied | punct |
| 13 | Fergus | Fergus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 replied | nsubj |
| 14 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 best | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 best | punct |
| 17 | Cuchullain | Cuchullain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 best | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 best | cop |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 best | nmod:poss |
| 20 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 replied | advcl |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 taught | punct |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 taught | nsubj |
| 23 | taught | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | conj |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 taught | obj |
| 25 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 taught | obj |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Ailill | question of the Branch Knights | feast | again | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Product | ||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Fergus | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | Cuchullain | Knights = knight nmod:poss; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | teach speech: other | past | I | arms | Cuchullain | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient arm=Topic | |||
| 5 | question | the Branch Knights | nom question «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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