The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 197
Sternly he made reply: “Queen Macha had her day and ruled: far down Doubtless this hour she rules, or rules aloft: I rule in Eman and this Uladh realm: I will not knight a stripling!”
Who acts: place, Queen · What happens: reply, have, rule, not knight · To what, where: Eman, stripling · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (place, Queen), 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 | Sternly | sternly | ADV | _ | 4 reply | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reply | nsubj |
| 3 | made | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 reply | aux |
| 4 | reply | reply | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
| 7 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 had | nsubj |
| 8 | Macha | Macha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Queen | flat |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reply | parataxis |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 day | nmod:poss |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 ruled | cc |
| 13 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 had | conj |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 Doubtless | punct |
| 15 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 Doubtless | advmod |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 17 Doubtless | case |
| 17 | Doubtless | Doubtless | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 reply | obl |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 hour | det |
| 19 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rules | compound |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 rules | nsubj |
| 21 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 Doubtless | list |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 rules | punct |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 rules | cc |
| 24 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 Doubtless | appos |
| 25 | aloft | aloft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 rules | amod |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 rule | punct |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 rule | nsubj |
| 28 | rule | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 reply | parataxis |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 Eman | case |
| 30 | Eman | Eman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 rule | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 realm | cc |
| 32 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 realm | det |
| 33 | Uladh | Uladh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 realm | compound |
| 34 | realm | realm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 Eman | conj |
| 35 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 39 knight | punct |
| 36 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 knight | nsubj |
| 37 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 knight | aux |
| 38 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 39 knight | advmod |
| 39 | knight | knight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 reply | parataxis |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 stripling | det |
| 41 | stripling | stripling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 knight | obj |
| 42 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 39 knight | punct |
| 43 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 knight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: express | may | place | down Doubtless; sternly property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | past | Queen | day | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | rule in a quote | past | Queen not said here | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | rule in a quote | Queen | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | rule in a quote | present | place | Eman and this Uladh realm | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | not knight in a quote | future | place | a stripling | vn orphan-29.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stripling=Theme |
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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