The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 31
Fergus spake; ‘One night To Meave’s pavilion swift of foot I sped; War-tidings wait not.
Who acts: I, War tidings · What happens: speed, not wait · To what, where: foot, Fergus spake
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, War tidings), 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 | Fergus | Fergus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 spake | compound |
| 2 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wait | obl |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 night | punct |
| 4 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 night | punct |
| 5 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 night | nummod |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spake | appos |
| 7 | To | to | ADP | _ | 11 swift | case |
| 8 | Meave | Meave | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 swift | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 Meave | case |
| 10 | pavilion | pavilion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 swift | compound |
| 11 | swift | swift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 night | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 foot | case |
| 13 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 swift | nmod |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 sped | nsubj |
| 15 | sped | speed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 foot | acl:relcl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 wait | punct |
| 17 | War | War | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 tidings | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 War | punct |
| 19 | tidings | tiding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 wait | nsubj |
| 20 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 wait | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speed | past | I | foot not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not wait | present | War tidings | Fergus spake | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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