The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 11
After ninety days of combat Cuchullain’s father brings him tidings that all Uladh lies bound under a spell of imbecility.
Who acts: father · What happens: bring, bind, spell · To what, where: tidings, CUCHULLAIN, spell, imbecility
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 days | case |
| 2 | ninety | ninety | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 days | nummod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 brings | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 combat | case |
| 5 | combat | combat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 days | nmod |
| 6 | Cuchullain | Cuchullain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 father | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Cuchullain | case |
| 8 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brings | nsubj |
| 9 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 brings | iobj |
| 11 | tidings | tiding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 brings | obj |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 bound | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 Uladh | det |
| 14 | Uladh | Uladh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 bound | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 bound | aux:pass |
| 16 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 tidings | acl:relcl |
| 17 | under | under | ADP | _ | 19 spell | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 spell | det |
| 19 | spell | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bound | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 imbecility | case |
| 21 | imbecility | imbecility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 spell | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 brings | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | present | Cuchullain's father | tidings | CUCHULLAIN | day | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination tiding=Theme | ||
| 2 | bind | present · passive | tidings | a spell of imbecility | all Uladh nsubj:pass | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 3 | spell | imbecility | nom spell «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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