The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 224
The laughter ceasing, spake King Conor’s son; ‘Recount the wonder of those fairy steeds That drag Cuchullain’s war-car!’
Who acts: laughter, wonder · What happens: cease, recount, drag, wonder · To what, where: war car, laughter, fairy steeds · 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 (laughter, wonder), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 laughter | det |
| 2 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ceasing | cease | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 laughter | acl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 son | punct |
| 5 | spake | speak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 son | amod |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 son | nmod:poss |
| 7 | Conor | Conor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 King | flat |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 King | case |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 laughter | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 Recount | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 Recount | punct |
| 12 | Recount | recount | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 laughter | appos |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wonder | det |
| 14 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 drag | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 steeds | case |
| 16 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 18 steeds | det |
| 17 | fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 steeds | amod |
| 18 | steeds | steed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 wonder | nmod |
| 19 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 drag | nsubj |
| 20 | drag | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 Recount | ccomp |
| 21 | Cuchullain | Cuchullain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 car | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 Cuchullain | case |
| 23 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 car | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 war | punct |
| 25 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 drag | obj |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 Recount | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 Recount | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cease | gerund | the laughter and King's spake son not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | recount speech: other | infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | drag | present | the wonder of that fairy steeds | Cuchullain's war car | That nsubj | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Theme | |||
| 5 | wonder | that fairy steeds | nom wonder «feeling 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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