The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 5
Their lords decide that the king and queen are great and happy alike in all things save one only, namely, that Ailill possesses the far-famed white Bull, Fionbannah.
Who acts: lords, king, things, Ailill · What happens: decide, be, save, possess, fame · To what, where: one, famed white Bull · 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 (lords, king, things, Ailill), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 lords | nmod:poss |
| 2 | lords | lord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 decide | nsubj |
| 3 | decide | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 great | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 great | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 queen | cc |
| 8 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 king | conj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 great | cop |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 decide | ccomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 happy | cc |
| 12 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 great | conj |
| 13 | alike | alike | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 great | conj |
| 14 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 17 save | mark |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 things | det |
| 16 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 save | nsubj |
| 17 | save | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 decide | advcl |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 save | obj |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 21 namely | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 namely | punct |
| 21 | namely | namely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 save | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 possesses | punct |
| 23 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 Ailill | det |
| 24 | Ailill | Ailill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 possesses | nsubj |
| 25 | possesses | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 decide | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Bull | det |
| 27 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 famed | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 far | punct |
| 29 | famed | fame | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 Bull | amod |
| 30 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 Bull | amod |
| 31 | Bull | Bull | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 possesses | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 Fionbannah | punct |
| 33 | Fionbannah | Fionbannah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Bull | flat |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 decide | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | present | Their lords | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | the king and queen | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | the king and queen not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | be | the king and queen not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | save | present | all things | one | namely property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | |||
| 6 | possess | present | that Ailill | the famed white Bull | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot bull=Theme | ||||
| 7 | fame | participle | 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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