The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 192
That self-same hour Old Cathbad entered, and his Druid clan, And spake; “King Conor! by my bed last night Great Macha stood, the worship of our race, Our strength in realms unseen.
Who acts: Old Cathbad, King Conor, race, our · What happens: enter, stand, worship, race · To what, where: Druid clan, worship
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 (Old Cathbad, King Conor, race, our), 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 | 5 hour | det |
| 2 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 same | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 self | punct |
| 4 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hour | amod |
| 5 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Old | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Cathbad | amod |
| 7 | Cathbad | Cathbad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 entered | nsubj |
| 8 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 clan | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 clan | cc |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 clan | nmod:poss |
| 12 | Druid | druid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 clan | compound |
| 13 | clan | clan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 entered | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 spake | punct |
| 15 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 spake | cc |
| 16 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 entered | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 stood | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 stood | punct |
| 19 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Conor | compound |
| 20 | Conor | Conor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 stood | nsubj |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 20 Conor | punct |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 bed | case |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 bed | nmod:poss |
| 24 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Conor | nmod |
| 25 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 night | amod |
| 26 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Conor | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | Great | Great | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Macha | flat |
| 28 | Macha | Macha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Conor | conj |
| 29 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 entered | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 worship | punct |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 worship | det |
| 32 | worship | worship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 stood | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 race | case |
| 34 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 race | nmod:poss |
| 35 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 worship | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 strength | punct |
| 37 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 strength | nmod:poss |
| 38 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 stood | obl |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 realms | case |
| 40 | realms | realm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 strength | nmod |
| 41 | unseen | unseen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 realms | amod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | Old Cathbad | Cathbad's Druid clan | spake obl | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | stand in a quote | past | King Conor by my bed last night and Great Macha | the worship of our race | Our strength in realms obl | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | worship in a quote | our race | nom worship «act intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 4 | race in a quote | our | nom race «event intransitive»: 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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