The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 5
This he will not do, yet consents to forbear Meave’s host till she has reached the border of Uladh, the queen engaging that the warfare shall then be restricted to a combat between himself and a single champion sent against him day by day.
Who acts: This, consents, Meave, queen, border · What happens: not do, forbear, reach, engage, restrict, send · To what, where: host, warfare, combat
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 (This, consents, Meave, queen), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 do | nsubj:outer |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 do | advmod |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 forbear | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 forbear | punct |
| 7 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 10 forbear | cc |
| 8 | consents | consent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 forbear | nsubj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 forbear | mark |
| 10 | forbear | forbear | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Meave | Meave | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 host | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 Meave | case |
| 13 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 forbear | obj |
| 14 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 17 reached | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 reached | nsubj |
| 16 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 reached | aux |
| 17 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 forbear | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 border | det |
| 19 | border | border | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 sent | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Uladh | case |
| 21 | Uladh | Uladh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 border | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 queen | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 queen | det |
| 24 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Uladh | appos |
| 25 | engaging | engage | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 queen | acl |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 restricted | mark |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 warfare | det |
| 28 | warfare | warfare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 restricted | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 restricted | aux |
| 30 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 restricted | advmod |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 restricted | aux:pass |
| 32 | restricted | restrict | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 engaging | advcl |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 combat | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 combat | det |
| 35 | combat | combat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 restricted | obl |
| 36 | between | between | ADP | _ | 37 himself | case |
| 37 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 35 combat | nmod |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 champion | cc |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 champion | det |
| 40 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 champion | amod |
| 41 | champion | champion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 himself | conj |
| 42 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 reached | parataxis |
| 43 | against | against | ADP | _ | 44 him | case |
| 44 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 sent | obl |
| 45 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 sent | obl:unmarked |
| 46 | by | by | ADP | _ | 47 day | case |
| 47 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 sent | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 forbear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | future | This | Fergus nsubj | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | forbear | to-infinitive | consents | Meave's host | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | reach | present · perfect | Meave | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | engage | gerund | the queen not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | restrict | shall · passive | the warfare | then | to a combat between Fergus goal | vn limit-76 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Patient to combat=Goal | |||
| 6 | send | past | the border of Uladh | day | against Fergus | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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