The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 135
I drave to Daré’s Dûn: his loud-voiced sons Adored the Donn Cuailgné as their sire, And called their sire a calf.
Who acts: I, loud voiced sons · What happens: drave, adore, call · To what, where: Dûn, Donn Cuailgné, sire · 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 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, loud voiced sons), 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 drave | nsubj |
| 2 | drave | drave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Dûn | case |
| 4 | Daré | Daré | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Dûn | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Daré | case |
| 6 | Dûn | Dûn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 drave | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 sons | punct |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 sons | nmod:poss |
| 9 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sons | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 loud | punct |
| 11 | voiced | voiced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sons | amod |
| 12 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 drave | parataxis |
| 13 | Adored | adore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 sons | acl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Cuailgné | det |
| 15 | Donn | Donn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Cuailgné | compound |
| 16 | Cuailgné | Cuailgné | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Adored | obj |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 sire | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 sire | nmod:poss |
| 19 | sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Adored | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 called | punct |
| 21 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 called | cc |
| 22 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sons | parataxis |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 sire | nmod:poss |
| 24 | sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 called | obj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 calf | det |
| 26 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 called | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 drave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drave | present | I | Daré's Dûn | Dûn's loud voiced sons parataxis | tree rules | |||
| 2 | adore | participle | Dûn's loud voiced sons not said here | the Donn Cuailgné | as sons's sire | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cuailgné=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | call | past | sons's sire | a calf xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sire=Recipient |
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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