The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 45
Tell her the Donn is manlike in his mind, And not like Bulls.
Who acts: you, Donn · What happens: tell, be, not like, mind · To what, where: To, mind, Bulls · 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 (you, Donn), 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 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Tell | iobj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Donn | det |
| 4 | Donn | Donn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 manlike | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 manlike | cop |
| 6 | manlike | manlike | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Tell | ccomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 mind | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 mind | nmod:poss |
| 9 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 manlike | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 like | punct |
| 11 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 like | cc |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 like | advmod |
| 13 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Tell | conj |
| 14 | Bulls | bull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 like | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | To | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the Donn | Donn's mind | manlike property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not like | infinitive | you not said here | Bulls | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bull=Theme | ||||
| 4 | mind | Donn | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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