The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 36
He snatched it up; he cried; “Hail, forfeit mine!
Who acts: wrath · What happens: snatch up, cry, forfeit · To what, where: joy, Hail, wrath · 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 (wrath), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 snatched | nsubj |
| 2 | snatched | snatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 snatched | obj |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 snatched | compound:prt |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 snatched | parataxis |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 Hail | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Hail | punct |
| 10 | Hail | hail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 forfeit | punct |
| 12 | forfeit | forfeit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 cried | conj |
| 13 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 forfeit | obj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 snatched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snatch up | past | wrath | joy | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | wrath | Hail | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | forfeit in a quote | infinitive | wrath not said here | wrath | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent my=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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