The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 68
He props my war because, long years our guest, His honour needs not less; with us he marches Athirst for vengeance and his native land, Yet scoffs our cause, and sent, spurning surprise, To Uladh challenge loud.’
Who acts: man, honour, cause, my, our · What happens: prop, not need, march, send, spurn, challenge · To what, where: war, surprise, Uladh
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 (man, honour, cause, my), 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 props | nsubj |
| 2 | props | prop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 war | nmod:poss |
| 4 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 props | obj |
| 5 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 8 years | case |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 because | punct |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 years | amod |
| 8 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 props | obl |
| 9 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 guest | nmod:poss |
| 10 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 years | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 needs | punct |
| 12 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 honour | nmod:poss |
| 13 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 needs | nsubj |
| 14 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 props | conj |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 needs | advmod |
| 16 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 needs | advmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 marches | punct |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 us | case |
| 19 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 marches | obl |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 marches | nsubj |
| 21 | marches | march | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 props | conj |
| 22 | Athirst | athirst | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 marches | xcomp |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 vengeance | case |
| 24 | vengeance | vengeance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 marches | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 land | cc |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 land | nmod:poss |
| 27 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 land | amod |
| 28 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 vengeance | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 scoffs | punct |
| 30 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 31 scoffs | cc |
| 31 | scoffs | scoff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 props | parataxis |
| 32 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 cause | nmod:poss |
| 33 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 scoffs | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 sent | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 sent | cc |
| 36 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 cause | acl:relcl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 spurning | punct |
| 38 | spurning | spurn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 sent | advcl |
| 39 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 spurning | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 challenge | punct |
| 41 | To | to | ADP | _ | 42 Uladh | case |
| 42 | Uladh | Uladh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 challenge | obl |
| 43 | challenge | challenge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 sent | conj |
| 44 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 challenge | xcomp |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 scoffs | punct |
| 46 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 props | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prop | present | man | my war | year | scoffs and our cause parataxis | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent war=Theme | ||
| 2 | not need | present | man's honour | less property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | march | present | man | with us; for vengeance and man's native land; athirst property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | send | past | our cause not said here | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | spurn | gerund | our cause not said here | surprise | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | challenge | present | our cause not said here | Uladh | loud property | tree rules | |||
| 7 | war | my | nom war «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | honour | man | nom honour «state transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | cause | our | nom cause «event 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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