The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 203
He spake and bound The Geisa, and the edicts, and the vows Of that dread Red Branch Order on the boy, And gave him sword and lance.
Who acts: land, vows · What happens: bind, dread, give, vow · To what, where: Geisa, Red Branch Order, sword, land, that
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 (land, vows), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bound | nsubj |
| 2 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 He | flat |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 bound | cc |
| 4 | bound | bind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Geisa | det |
| 6 | Geisa | Geisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 bound | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 edicts | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 edicts | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 edicts | det |
| 10 | edicts | edict | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 Geisa | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 dread | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 dread | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 vows | det |
| 14 | vows | vow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 dread | nsubj |
| 15 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 16 that | case |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 vows | nmod |
| 17 | dread | dread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 bound | conj |
| 18 | Red | Red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Order | amod |
| 19 | Branch | Branch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Order | compound |
| 20 | Order | Order | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 dread | obj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 boy | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 boy | det |
| 23 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dread | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 gave | punct |
| 25 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 gave | cc |
| 26 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bound | conj |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 gave | iobj |
| 28 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 gave | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 lance | cc |
| 30 | lance | lance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sword | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bound | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bind | past | land | the Geisa and the edicts | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent geisa=Patient | ||||
| 2 | dread | present | the vows of that | Red Branch Order | on the boy | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer order=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | give | past | land not said here | sword and lance | land | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient sword=Theme | |||
| 4 | vow | that | nom vow «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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