The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 49
He hates Queen Meave, and well he loves the Donn;’ And stood next morn beside their sire, and spake, ‘Mac Roth is gone a hunting: ere he went He sware that you had yielded him the Donn Fearing his sword.’
Who acts: Donn, Mac Roth, ere, you · What happens: hate, love, stand, be, go, sware · To what, where: Queen, Donn, next morn, sire, sware, sword
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, Mac Roth, ere, you), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hates | nsubj |
| 2 | hates | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 hates | obj |
| 4 | Meave | Meave | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Queen | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 loves | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 loves | cc |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 loves | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 loves | nsubj |
| 9 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 hates | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Donn | det |
| 11 | Donn | Donn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 loves | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 hates | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 hates | punct |
| 14 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 stood | cc |
| 15 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hates | conj |
| 16 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 morn | amod |
| 17 | morn | morn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stood | obj |
| 18 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 20 sire | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 sire | nmod:poss |
| 20 | sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stood | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 spake | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 spake | cc |
| 23 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stood | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 gone | punct |
| 25 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 gone | punct |
| 26 | Mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Roth | compound |
| 27 | Roth | Roth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 gone | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 gone | cop |
| 29 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 stood | conj |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 hunting | det |
| 31 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 gone | obj |
| 32 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 35 went | punct |
| 33 | ere | ere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 went | nsubj |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 went | nsubj |
| 35 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hates | conj |
| 36 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 sware | nsubj |
| 37 | sware | sware | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 went | obj |
| 38 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 yielded | obj |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 41 yielded | nsubj |
| 40 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 yielded | aux |
| 41 | yielded | yield | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 37 sware | acl:relcl |
| 42 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 yielded | obj |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 Donn | det |
| 44 | Donn | Donn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 yielded | obj |
| 45 | Fearing | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 35 went | advcl |
| 46 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 sword | nmod:poss |
| 47 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 Fearing | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hates | punct |
| 49 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 hates | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hate | present | Donn | Queen | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer queen=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | love | present | Donn | the Donn | well property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer donn=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | stand | past | Donn not said here | next morn | king's sire | spake parataxis | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent morn=Theme beside sire=Destination | ||
| 4 | is | present | Mac Roth | a hunting obj; go property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go | past | ere | Donn nsubj | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | sware | Donn | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | yield | past · perfect | you | sware | Donn obj | tree rules | |||
| 8 | fear | gerund | ere not said here | Donn's sword | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sword=Stimulus |
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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