The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 6
Meave hearing that Conor Conchobar, King of Uladh,[25] boasts a black Bull mightier yet, is fain to purchase it, but cannot prevail so far.
Who acts: Conor, Meave hearing · What happens: boast, be, purchase, not prevail · To what, where: Meave hearing, hearing
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 (Conor, Meave hearing), 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 | Meave | Meave | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 hearing | compound |
| 2 | hearing | hearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fain | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 boasts | obj |
| 4 | Conor | Conor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 boasts | nsubj |
| 5 | Conchobar | Conchobar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Conor | flat |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 King | punct |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Conor | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Uladh | case |
| 9 | Uladh | Uladh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 King | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 25 | punct |
| 11 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 12 25 | punct |
| 12 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 Conor | appos |
| 13 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 12 25 | punct |
| 14 | boasts | boast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 hearing | acl:relcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 Bull | det |
| 16 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Bull | amod |
| 17 | Bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 boasts | obj |
| 18 | mightier | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 Bull | amod |
| 19 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 18 mightier | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 hearing | punct |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 fain | cop |
| 22 | fain | fain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 purchase | mark |
| 24 | purchase | purchase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 fain | xcomp |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 purchase | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 prevail | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 prevail | cc |
| 28 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 prevail | aux |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 prevail | advmod |
| 30 | prevail | prevail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 fain | conj |
| 31 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 far | advmod |
| 32 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 prevail | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 fain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | boast speech: other | present | Conor | Meave hearing | a black Bull obj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | Meave hearing | fain property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | purchase | to-infinitive | Meave hearing not said here | hearing | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not prevail | can | Meave hearing not said here | far property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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