The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 24
These merits three were yours: I beckoned to you: Dowered you with ingots thicker than your wrist; Made you a king, or kingling.
Who acts: three, merits · What happens: be, beckon, dower · To what, where: yours, king, you
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 (three, merits), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 merits | det |
| 2 | merits | merit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 beckoned | nsubj |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 yours | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 yours | cop |
| 5 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 merits | acl:relcl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 beckoned | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 beckoned | nsubj |
| 8 | beckoned | beckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 you | case |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 beckoned | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 Dowered | punct |
| 12 | Dowered | dower | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 beckoned | conj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 Dowered | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 ingots | case |
| 15 | ingots | ingot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 Dowered | obl |
| 16 | thicker | thick | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 ingots | amod |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 wrist | case |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 wrist | nmod:poss |
| 19 | wrist | wrist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thicker | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 you | punct |
| 21 | Made | Made | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 you | nsubj |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 beckoned | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 king | det |
| 24 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 beckoned | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 kingling | punct |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 kingling | cc |
| 27 | kingling | kingling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 beckoned | parataxis |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 beckoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | three | yours | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | beckon | past | this merits | a king | you | I nsubj; kingling parataxis | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Theme to you=Recipient | ||
| 3 | dower | participle | this merits not said here | you | with ingots | 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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