The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 66
To her by night Came Cailitin, who ever walked by night Shunning mankind, and Fergus most of all, Cailitin, father of the Magic Clan, And thus addressed her; ‘Place in me thy trust!
Who acts: Came, night, thy · What happens: walk, shun, address, trust · To what, where: mankind, host, Came
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 (Came, night, thy), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 2 her | case |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 Came | obl |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 night | case |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Came | obl |
| 5 | Came | Came | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | Cailitin | Cailitin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Came | flat |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 walked | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 walked | nsubj |
| 9 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 10 walked | advmod |
| 10 | walked | walk | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 Came | acl:relcl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 night | case |
| 12 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 walked | obl |
| 13 | Shunning | shun | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 night | acl |
| 14 | mankind | mankind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Shunning | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Fergus | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 Fergus | cc |
| 17 | Fergus | Fergus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Came | conj |
| 18 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 Fergus | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 all | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 most | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Cailitin | punct |
| 22 | Cailitin | Cailitin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Came | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 father | punct |
| 24 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Came | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Clan | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Clan | det |
| 27 | Magic | Magic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Clan | compound |
| 28 | Clan | Clan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 father | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 addressed | punct |
| 30 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 addressed | cc |
| 31 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 32 addressed | advmod |
| 32 | addressed | address | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Came | acl:relcl |
| 33 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 addressed | obj |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 Place | punct |
| 35 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 36 Place | punct |
| 36 | Place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 addressed | obl |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 me | case |
| 38 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 Place | nmod |
| 39 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 40 trust | nmod:poss |
| 40 | trust | trust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 Place | nmod |
| 41 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 Came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | participle | Came to host by night and Fergus most of all and Cailitin and father of the Magic Clan | ever; night | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shun | gerund | night not said here | mankind | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent mankind=Location | ||||
| 3 | address | past | Came to host by night and Fergus most of all and Cailitin and father of the Magic Clan not said here | host | Place in me thy trust obl; thus property | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination | |||
| 5 | trust | thy | nom trust «possession 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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