The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 4
Fergus is sent to Cuchullain with gifts, and requires him to forsake King Conor.
What happens: send, require, forsake · To what, where: Fergus, Cuchullain, 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: 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 | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | aux:pass |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Cuchullain | case |
| 5 | Cuchullain | Cuchullain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 gifts | case |
| 7 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sent | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 requires | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 requires | cc |
| 10 | requires | require | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 requires | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 forsake | mark |
| 13 | forsake | forsake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 requires | xcomp |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 forsake | obj |
| 15 | Conor | Conor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 King | flat |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | present · passive | Fergus | Cuchullain | with gifts | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to cuchullain=Destination | |||
| 2 | require | present | Fergus | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | forsake | to-infinitive | King | tree rules |
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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