The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 207
Conor signed; Then brought his knaves ten swords, and lances ten: Cuchullain eyed them each and snapt them all, The concourse marvelling.
Who acts: Conor, Cuchullain · What happens: sign, bring, lance, eye, snapt · To what, where: knaves, ten
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 (Conor, Cuchullain), 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 | Conor | Conor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 signed | nsubj |
| 2 | signed | sign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 brought | punct |
| 4 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 brought | advmod |
| 5 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 signed | conj |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 knaves | nmod:poss |
| 7 | knaves | knave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 brought | obj |
| 8 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 swords | nummod |
| 9 | swords | sword | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 knaves | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lances | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 lances | cc |
| 12 | lances | lance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 signed | conj |
| 13 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 lances | obj |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 eyed | punct |
| 15 | Cuchullain | Cuchullain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 eyed | nsubj |
| 16 | eyed | eye | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 signed | parataxis |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 eyed | obj |
| 18 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 eyed | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 snapt | cc |
| 20 | snapt | snapt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 eyed | conj |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 snapt | obj |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 marvelling | punct |
| 24 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 marvelling | det |
| 25 | concourse | concourse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 marvelling | compound |
| 26 | marvelling | marvelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 snapt | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 signed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sign | past | Conor | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bring | past | Conor not said here | boy's knaves and ten swords | then | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent knave=Theme | |||
| 3 | lance | present | Conor not said here | ten | vn carve-21.2-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ten=Patient | ||||
| 4 | eye | past | Cuchullain | knaves = knave | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | snapt | infinitive | Cuchullain not said here | knaves = knave | the concourse marvelling obl | tree rules |
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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