The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 4
Meave, Queen of Connacht,[24] and Ailill her husband, waking one morning fall into a disputation, each claiming to be the worthier of the two, and the wealthier.
Who acts: Meave husband, each · What happens: wake, claim, be · To what, where: morning fall, disputation, Meave husband · 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 (Meave husband, each), 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 | Meave | Meave | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 husband | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Queen | punct |
| 3 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Meave | appos |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Connacht | case |
| 5 | Connacht | Connacht | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Queen | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 24 | punct |
| 7 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 8 24 | punct |
| 8 | 24 | 24 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Meave | list |
| 9 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 8 24 | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Ailill | cc |
| 11 | Ailill | Ailill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Meave | conj |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 husband | nmod:poss |
| 13 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 waking | punct |
| 15 | waking | wake | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 husband | acl |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 morning | nummod |
| 17 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fall | compound |
| 18 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 waking | obj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 disputation | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 disputation | det |
| 21 | disputation | disputation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 waking | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 claiming | punct |
| 23 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 claiming | nsubj |
| 24 | claiming | claim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 husband | parataxis |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 worthier | mark |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 worthier | cop |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 worthier | det |
| 28 | worthier | worthy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 claiming | ccomp |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 two | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 two | det |
| 31 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 worthier | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 wealthier | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 wealthier | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 wealthier | det |
| 35 | wealthier | wealthy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 28 worthier | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 husband | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake | gerund | Ailill's Meave husband not said here | morning fall | a disputation | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fall=Patient | |||
| 2 | claim speech: other | gerund | each | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | of the two; worthy property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | be | 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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