The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 28
With treble shrill Ailill replied; ‘What words are these, my queen?
Who acts: shrill Ailill · What happens: reply, be · To what, where: words, these
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 (shrill Ailill), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 treble | case |
| 2 | treble | treble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obl |
| 3 | shrill | shrill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Ailill | amod |
| 4 | Ailill | Ailill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | nsubj |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 words | punct |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 words | punct |
| 8 | What | what | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 words | det |
| 9 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 replied | obj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 these | cop |
| 11 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 words | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 queen | punct |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 queen | nmod:poss |
| 14 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 words | conj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | shrill Ailill | what words and my queen | with treble | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | |||
| 2 | is a | present | these | 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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