The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 28
Cuchullain rose And curtly answered; ‘Never will I break My vow; nor wrong the land; nor sell my king:’ Fergus too royal was to hear surprised, Or grieved, his friend’s resolve, nor touched again Upon that pact unworthy.
Who acts: Cuchullain, I, My · What happens: rise, answer, not break, sell, be, grieve · To what, where: vow, king
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 (Cuchullain, I, My), 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 | Cuchullain | Cuchullain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 rose | nsubj |
| 2 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 answered | cc |
| 4 | curtly | curtly | ADV | _ | 5 answered | advmod |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 rose | conj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 break | punct |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 break | punct |
| 8 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 break | advmod |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 break | aux |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 break | nsubj |
| 11 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 rose | conj |
| 12 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 vow | nmod:poss |
| 13 | vow | vow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 break | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 wrong | punct |
| 15 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 16 wrong | cc |
| 16 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 rose | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 land | det |
| 18 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wrong | nsubj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 sell | punct |
| 20 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 21 sell | cc |
| 21 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 rose | advcl |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 king | nmod:poss |
| 23 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sell | obj |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 royal | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 royal | punct |
| 26 | Fergus | Fergus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 royal | nsubj |
| 27 | too | too | ADV | _ | 28 royal | advmod |
| 28 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 rose | parataxis |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 hear | cop |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 hear | mark |
| 31 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 royal | conj |
| 32 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 hear | xcomp |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 grieved | punct |
| 34 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 35 grieved | cc |
| 35 | grieved | grieve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 hear | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 resolve | punct |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 friend | nmod:poss |
| 38 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 resolve | nmod:poss |
| 39 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 38 friend | case |
| 40 | resolve | resolve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 grieved | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 touched | punct |
| 42 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 43 touched | cc |
| 43 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rose | conj |
| 44 | again | again | ADV | _ | 43 touched | advmod |
| 45 | Upon | upon | ADP | _ | 47 pact | case |
| 46 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 47 pact | det |
| 47 | pact | pact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 touched | obl |
| 48 | unworthy | unworthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 pact | amod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | Cuchullain | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | participle | Cuchullain not said here | curtly property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not break | future | I | My vow | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vow=Patient | ||||
| 4 | sell | infinitive | Cuchullain not said here | my king | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | past | Cuchullain not said here | hear, surprised property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | grieve | participle | Cuchullain not said here | Fergus's friend's resolve conj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | touch | past | Cuchullain not said here | again | upon that pact | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 8 | vow | My | nom vow «communication 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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