The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 34
In the outer Ailill marked My sword, that morning thither sent, a loan, For Meave had vowed with braided gems, her boast, To out-brave its hilt.
Who acts: morning, Meave · What happens: mark, send, vow, braid, boast · To what, where: sword, outer Ailill, boast
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 (morning, Meave), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 Ailill | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Ailill | det |
| 3 | outer | outer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Ailill | amod |
| 4 | Ailill | Ailill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 marked | obl |
| 5 | marked | mark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sword | nmod:poss |
| 7 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 marked | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 morning | punct |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 morning | det |
| 10 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sword | appos |
| 11 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 12 sent | advmod |
| 12 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 morning | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 loan | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 loan | det |
| 15 | loan | loan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sword | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 vowed | punct |
| 17 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 vowed | mark |
| 18 | Meave | Meave | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 vowed | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 vowed | aux |
| 20 | vowed | vow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 marked | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 gems | case |
| 22 | braided | braid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 gems | amod |
| 23 | gems | gem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 vowed | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 boast | punct |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 boast | nmod:poss |
| 26 | boast | boast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 vowed | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 brave | punct |
| 28 | To | to | ADP | _ | 31 brave | case |
| 29 | out | out | ADP | _ | 31 brave | case |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 out | punct |
| 31 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 vowed | parataxis |
| 32 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 hilt | nmod:poss |
| 33 | hilt | hilt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 brave | nsubj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 marked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mark | past | My sword and a loan | the outer Ailill | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent sword=Theme in ailill=Destination | ||||
| 2 | send | past | that morning not said here | thither property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | vow | past · perfect | Meave | Meave's boast | with braided gems | tree rules | |||
| 4 | braid | participle | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | boast | Meave | nom boast «communication intransitive»: 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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