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The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 8

There meets her Faythleen the Witch, who prophesies calamity, but promises that in aid of Meave she will breathe over the realm of Uladh a spirit of imbecility.

Who acts: Faythleen, Conor · What happens: meet, prophesy, promise, breathe · To what, where: Conor, calamity, spirit, aid · 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 (Faythleen, Conor), 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

explobjobjdetappospunctnsubjacl:relclobjpunctccconjmarkcaseoblcasenmodnsubjauxccompcasedetoblcasenmoddetobjcasenmodpunctrootTherePRONmeetsVERBherPRONFaythleenPROPNtheDETWitchPROPN,PUNCTwhoPRONprophesiesVERBcalamityNOUN,PUNCTbutCCONJpromisesVERBthatSCONJinADPaidNOUNofADPMeavePROPNshePRONwillAUXbreatheVERBoverADPtheDETrealmNOUNofADPUladhPROPNaDETspiritNOUNofADPimbecilityNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheretherePRONPronType=Dem2 meetsexpl
2meetsmeetVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
3hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 meetsobj
4FaythleenFaythleenPROPNNumber=Sing2 meetsobj
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 Witchdet
6WitchWitchPROPNNumber=Sing4 Faythleenappos
7,,PUNCT_9 prophesiespunct
8whowhoPRONPronType=Rel9 prophesiesnsubj
9prophesiesprophesyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin4 Faythleenacl:relcl
10calamitycalamityNOUNNumber=Sing9 prophesiesobj
11,,PUNCT_13 promisespunct
12butbutCCONJ_13 promisescc
13promisespromiseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin2 meetsconj
14thatthatSCONJ_21 breathemark
15ininADP_16 aidcase
16aidaidNOUNNumber=Sing21 breatheobl
17ofofADP_18 Meavecase
18MeaveMeavePROPNNumber=Sing16 aidnmod
19sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 breathensubj
20willwillAUXVerbForm=Fin21 breatheaux
21breathebreatheVERBVerbForm=Inf13 promisesccomp
22overoverADP_24 realmcase
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 realmdet
24realmrealmNOUNNumber=Sing21 breatheobl
25ofofADP_26 Uladhcase
26UladhUladhPROPNNumber=Sing24 realmnmod
27aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art28 spiritdet
28spiritspiritNOUNNumber=Sing21 breatheobj
29ofofADP_30 imbecilitycase
30imbecilityimbecilityNOUNNumber=Sing28 spiritnmod
31..PUNCT_2 meetspunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1meetpresentConorthereFaythleen objtree rules
2prophesypresentFaythleencalamityvn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calamity=Theme
3promise speech: promisepresentvn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4breathefutureConora spirit of imbecilityaid of Meaveover the realm of Uladhvn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=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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