The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 61
At their head Rode Fergus, Uladh’s King ere traitor yet Had filched its royal crown; and by his side, Faithful in exile, Cormac Conlinglas, King Conor’s bravest son.
Who acts: traitor · What happens: filch, crown · To what, where: ere traitor, head Rode
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 (traitor), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 Rode | case |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 head | nmod:poss |
| 3 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Rode | compound |
| 4 | Rode | Rode | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 filched | obl |
| 5 | Fergus | Fergus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Rode | flat |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Rode | punct |
| 7 | Uladh | Uladh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 King | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 Uladh | case |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 ere | compound |
| 10 | ere | ere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 traitor | compound |
| 11 | traitor | traitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 filched | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 14 filched | advmod |
| 13 | Had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 filched | aux |
| 14 | filched | filch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 crown | nmod:poss |
| 16 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 crown | amod |
| 17 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 filched | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 Faithful | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 Faithful | cc |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 side | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 side | nmod:poss |
| 22 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Faithful | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 side | punct |
| 24 | Faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 filched | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 exile | case |
| 26 | exile | exile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Faithful | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Cormac | punct |
| 28 | Cormac | Cormac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 filched | obl |
| 29 | Conlinglas | Conlinglas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Cormac | flat |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 son | punct |
| 31 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 son | nmod:poss |
| 32 | Conor | Conor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 King | flat |
| 33 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 31 King | case |
| 34 | bravest | brave | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 35 son | amod |
| 35 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 Cormac | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 filched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | filch | past · perfect · passive | ere traitor | head Rode | yet | Cormac and King's bravest son obl; traitor's royal crown obj | tree rules | ||
| 2 | crown | traitor | nom crown «communication 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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