The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 94
But Fergus, as she passed him spake: ‘not yet Know’st thou my Uladh, nor the Red Branch Knights; And one man is there mightier thrice than they.’
Who acts: Fergus, one man · What happens: pass, be · To what, where: spake, army
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 (Fergus, one man), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 passed | cc |
| 2 | Fergus | Fergus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 passed | punct |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 passed | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 passed | nsubj |
| 6 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 passed | obj |
| 8 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 passed | obj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 Know’st | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 Know’st | punct |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 Know’st | advmod |
| 12 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 13 Know’st | advmod |
| 13 | Know’st | Know'st | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 passed | parataxis |
| 14 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 Know’st | appos |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 Uladh | nmod:poss |
| 16 | Uladh | Uladh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Know’st | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Knights | punct |
| 18 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 22 Knights | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Knights | det |
| 20 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Knights | flat |
| 21 | Branch | Branch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Knights | compound |
| 22 | Knights | Knight | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 Know’st | appos |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 there | punct |
| 24 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 there | cc |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 man | nummod |
| 26 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 there | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 there | cop |
| 28 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 passed | parataxis |
| 29 | mightier | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 30 thrice | amod |
| 30 | thrice | thrice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 there | obl:unmarked |
| 31 | than | than | ADP | _ | 32 they | case |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 there | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 passed | punct |
| 34 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | Fergus | spake | army | Know’st and my Uladh parataxis | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient speak=Theme | ||
| 2 | is | present | one man | than Knights = knight; mightier thrice obl:unmarked; there property | 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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