The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 127
I bring ill news: Uladh is mad; the Red Branch House is mad: We two are mad; and all the world are mad, Mad as thy mother!
Who acts: I, Uladh, Red Branch House, We, world · What happens: bring, be · To what, where: ill news
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 (I, Uladh, Red Branch House, We), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 bring | nsubj |
| 2 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 news | amod |
| 4 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bring | obj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 mad | punct |
| 6 | Uladh | Uladh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 mad | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 mad | cop |
| 8 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 bring | parataxis |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 mad | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 House | det |
| 11 | Red | Red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 House | amod |
| 12 | Branch | Branch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 House | compound |
| 13 | House | House | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 mad | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 mad | cop |
| 15 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 mad | appos |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 mad | punct |
| 17 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 mad | nsubj |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 We | appos |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 mad | cop |
| 20 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 mad | appos |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 mad | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 mad | cc |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 world | det:predet |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 world | det |
| 25 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 mad | nsubj |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 mad | cop |
| 27 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 bring | parataxis |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Mad | punct |
| 29 | Mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 mad | appos |
| 30 | as | as | ADP | _ | 32 mother | case |
| 31 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 32 mother | nmod:poss |
| 32 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 Mad | obl |
| 33 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | present | I | ill news | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent news=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Uladh | mad property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the Red Branch House | mad property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present | We | mad property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | present | all world | mad 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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