The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 235
In his wars Emulous those mated marvels drag his car: In peace he yokes them never.’
Who acts: Emulous mated marvels, marvel, Cuchullain · What happens: mate, drag, not yoke, war · To what, where: car, wars, head, peace
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 (Emulous mated marvels, marvel, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 wars | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 wars | nmod:poss |
| 3 | wars | war | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 drag | obl |
| 4 | Emulous | emulous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 marvels | amod |
| 5 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 marvels | det |
| 6 | mated | mate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 marvels | amod |
| 7 | marvels | marvel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 drag | nsubj |
| 8 | drag | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 car | nmod:poss |
| 10 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drag | obj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 yokes | punct |
| 12 | In | in | ADP | _ | 13 peace | case |
| 13 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 yokes | obl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 yokes | nsubj |
| 15 | yokes | yoke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 drag | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 yokes | obj |
| 17 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 yokes | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 drag | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 drag | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mate | participle | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | drag | present | that Emulous mated marvels | Cuchullain's car | Cuchullain's wars | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Theme | |||
| 3 | not yoke | present | marvel | head | peace | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Destination | |||
| 4 | war | Cuchullain | nom war «act 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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