The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 236
Fergus rose: ‘Night wanes,’ he said, ‘and tasks await my hand:’ Passing the throne he whispered thus the queen, ‘The Hound of Uladh is your visitant Both day and night.’
Who acts: Fergus, marvel, tasks, Hound · What happens: rise, say, await, pass, whisper, be · To what, where: Night wanes, hand, throne, queen, visitant · 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 (Fergus, marvel, tasks, Hound), 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 | Fergus | Fergus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 rose | nsubj |
| 2 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 wanes | punct |
| 4 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 wanes | punct |
| 5 | Night | night | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wanes | amod |
| 6 | wanes | wane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 rose | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rose | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 15 await | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 await | cc |
| 14 | tasks | task | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 await | nsubj |
| 15 | await | await | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 rose | conj |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hand | nmod:poss |
| 17 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 await | obj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 Passing | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 Passing | punct |
| 20 | Passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 await | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 throne | det |
| 22 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Passing | obj |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 whispered | nsubj |
| 24 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 throne | acl:relcl |
| 25 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 27 queen | advmod |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 queen | det |
| 27 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 whispered | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 visitant | punct |
| 29 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 36 visitant | punct |
| 30 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Hound | det |
| 31 | Hound | hound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 visitant | nsubj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Uladh | case |
| 33 | Uladh | Uladh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Hound | nmod |
| 34 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 visitant | cop |
| 35 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 visitant | nmod:poss |
| 36 | visitant | visitant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Passing | obj |
| 37 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 day | det |
| 38 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 visitant | obl:unmarked |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 night | cc |
| 40 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 day | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rose | punct |
| 42 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | Fergus | Night wanes | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | marvel | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | await | present | tasks | my hand | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | pass | gerund | tasks not said here | the throne | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme throne=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | whisper speech: assert | past | marvel | the queen | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Topic | ||||
| 6 | is a | present | the Hound of Uladh | your visitant | day | your nmod:poss | 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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