The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 43
Proudly Daré mused, ‘Great Meave my friendship sues;’ and made a feast, And, when the wine had warmed him spake; ‘Mac Roth!
Who acts: Daré, Meave friendship · What happens: muse, sue, make, warm · To what, where: feast, wine
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 (Daré, Meave friendship), 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 | Proudly | proudly | ADV | _ | 3 mused | advmod |
| 2 | Daré | Daré | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mused | nsubj |
| 3 | mused | muse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sues | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 sues | punct |
| 6 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Meave | amod |
| 7 | Meave | Meave | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 friendship | compound |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 friendship | nmod:poss |
| 9 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sues | nsubj |
| 10 | sues | sue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 mused | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 sues | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 sues | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 made | cc |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 mused | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 feast | det |
| 16 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 warmed | punct |
| 18 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 warmed | cc |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 warmed | punct |
| 20 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 24 warmed | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 wine | det |
| 22 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 warmed | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 warmed | aux |
| 24 | warmed | warm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 mused | parataxis |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 warmed | obj |
| 26 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 warmed | obj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 Roth | punct |
| 28 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 Mac | punct |
| 29 | Mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Roth | compound |
| 30 | Roth | Roth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mused | parataxis |
| 31 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 30 Roth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | muse | past | Daré | Mac Roth parataxis; proudly property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | sue | present | my Meave friendship | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | make | past | Daré not said here | a feast | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset feast=Product | ||||
| 4 | warm | past · perfect · passive | the wine | Daré obj; spake obj | 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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