The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 36
At once forth stepped Mac Roth, old Connacht’s herald, with this word: ‘Great queen, the King of Uladh boasts a Bull Lordlier than ours, a broader bulk, and black, Black as the raven’s wing!
Who acts: Great queen · What happens: step, boast · To what, where: Mac, Bull
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 (Great queen), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 once | case |
| 2 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 stepped | obl |
| 3 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 4 stepped | advmod |
| 4 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 stepped | obj |
| 6 | Roth | Roth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Mac | flat |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 herald | punct |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Connacht | amod |
| 9 | Connacht | Connacht | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 herald | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 Connacht | case |
| 11 | herald | herald | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stepped | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 word | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 word | case |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 word | det |
| 15 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stepped | obl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 queen | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 queen | punct |
| 18 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 queen | amod |
| 19 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 boasts | nsubj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 King | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 King | det |
| 22 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 queen | appos |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Uladh | case |
| 24 | Uladh | Uladh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 King | nmod |
| 25 | boasts | boast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 word | acl:relcl |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 Bull | det |
| 27 | Bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 boasts | obj |
| 28 | Lordlier | lordly | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 27 Bull | amod |
| 29 | than | than | ADP | _ | 30 ours | case |
| 30 | ours | our | PRON | Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 Lordlier | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 bulk | punct |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 bulk | det |
| 33 | broader | broad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 34 bulk | amod |
| 34 | bulk | bulk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Bull | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 Black | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 Black | cc |
| 37 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 Black | amod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 black | punct |
| 39 | Black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stepped | conj |
| 40 | as | as | ADP | _ | 44 wing | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 raven | det |
| 42 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 wing | nmod:poss |
| 43 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 42 raven | case |
| 44 | wing | wing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 Black | obl |
| 45 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step | past | Mac | with this word; old Connacht's herald obl; forth property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location mac=Theme | ||||
| 2 | boast speech: other | present | Great queen | a Bull and a broader bulk | 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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