The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 23
Then spake the kings confederate; ‘Hard albeit That task, to draw Cuchullain from his charge, Seek him, and proffer terms!’
Who acts: you, kings, King · What happens: speak, confederate, draw, seek, charge · To what, where: proffer terms, Cuchullain, charge, King · 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 (you, kings, King), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 spake | advmod |
| 2 | spake | speak | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 kings | det |
| 4 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 confederate | nsubj |
| 5 | confederate | confederate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 spake | ccomp |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 Hard | punct |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 Hard | punct |
| 8 | Hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 spake | parataxis |
| 9 | albeit | albeit | ADP | _ | 11 task | case |
| 10 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 task | det |
| 11 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Hard | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 draw | punct |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 draw | mark |
| 14 | draw | draw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 Hard | parataxis |
| 15 | Cuchullain | Cuchullain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 draw | obj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 charge | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 charge | nmod:poss |
| 18 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 draw | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Seek | punct |
| 20 | Seek | seek | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 draw | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 Seek | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 terms | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 terms | cc |
| 24 | proffer | proffer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 terms | compound |
| 25 | terms | term | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 spake | obl |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 25 terms | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 spake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | imperative | you not said here | proffer terms | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | confederate | present | the kings | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | draw | to-infinitive | Cuchullain | King's charge | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent cuchullain=Theme from charge=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | seek | infinitive | King | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||||
| 5 | charge | King | nom charge «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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