The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 44
Cuailgné’s Donn is Conor’s Bull, not mine: Yet, though the king should hurl me outcast forth, To Meave that Bull shall go and bide a year.
Who acts: Donn, king, To, Bull · What happens: be, hurl, meave, go, bide · To what, where: Bull, me
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 (Donn, king, To, Bull), 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 | Cuailgné | Cuailgné | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Bull | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 1 Cuailgné | case |
| 3 | Donn | Donn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Bull | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 Bull | cop |
| 5 | Conor | Conor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Bull | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 Conor | case |
| 7 | Bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 mine | punct |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 mine | advmod |
| 10 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 Bull | conj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 hurl | punct |
| 12 | Yet | yet | ADV | _ | 18 hurl | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Yet | punct |
| 14 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 18 hurl | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hurl | nsubj |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 hurl | aux |
| 18 | hurl | hurl | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 Bull | parataxis |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 hurl | obj |
| 20 | outcast | outcast | ADV | _ | 21 forth | advmod |
| 21 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 18 hurl | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Meave | punct |
| 23 | To | To | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Meave | nsubj |
| 24 | Meave | meave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 hurl | conj |
| 25 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 Bull | det |
| 26 | Bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 go | nsubj |
| 27 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 go | aux |
| 28 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 Meave | ccomp |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 bide | cc |
| 30 | bide | bide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 go | conj |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 year | det |
| 32 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 bide | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Bull | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Donn | Cuailgné's Bull | Cuailgné nmod:poss; Conor nmod:poss; mine conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hurl | should | the king | me | yet | forth property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||
| 3 | meave | infinitive | To | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go | shall | that Bull | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | bide | infinitive | that Bull not said here | year | 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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