The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 45
Then rose a recreant churl, And thus gave counsel; ‘Lure Cuchullain here On pretext fair; and slay him at the feast!’
What happens: rise, give, slay · To what, where: recreant churl, counsel, Lure, feast
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 rose | advmod |
| 2 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 churl | det |
| 4 | recreant | recreant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 churl | amod |
| 5 | churl | churl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rose | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 gave | punct |
| 7 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 gave | cc |
| 8 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 9 gave | advmod |
| 9 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rose | conj |
| 10 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 Lure | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 Lure | punct |
| 13 | Lure | Lure | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 rose | obl |
| 14 | Cuchullain | Cuchullain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Lure | flat |
| 15 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 Lure | advmod |
| 16 | On | on | ADP | _ | 18 fair | case |
| 17 | pretext | pretext | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fair | compound |
| 18 | fair | fair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 here | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 slay | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 slay | cc |
| 21 | slay | slay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 rose | parataxis |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 slay | obj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 feast | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 feast | det |
| 25 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 slay | obl |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 21 slay | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 slay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | a recreant churl | then | Lure obl | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location churl=Theme | |||
| 2 | give | past | counsel | thus property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme | ||||
| 3 | slay | infinitive | Lure | the feast | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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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