The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 7
Cailitin, lord of the Magic Clan, counsels Meave to send against Cuchullain his best-loved friend Ferdīa; yet she sends, instead, Lok Mac Favesh.
Who acts: Cailitin, Meave · What happens: send, love
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 (Cailitin, Meave), 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 | Cailitin | Cailitin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 send | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lord | punct |
| 3 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Cailitin | appos |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Clan | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Clan | det |
| 6 | Magic | Magic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Clan | compound |
| 7 | Clan | Clan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lord | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 counsels | punct |
| 9 | counsels | counsel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Cailitin | conj |
| 10 | Meave | Meave | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 send | nsubj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 send | mark |
| 12 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | against | against | ADP | _ | 14 Cuchullain | case |
| 14 | Cuchullain | Cuchullain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 send | obl |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 friend | nmod:poss |
| 16 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 loved | advmod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 best | punct |
| 18 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 friend | amod |
| 19 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 send | advcl |
| 20 | Ferdīa | Ferdīa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 friend | appos |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 sends | punct |
| 22 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 24 sends | cc |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 sends | nsubj |
| 24 | sends | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 send | parataxis |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Favesh | punct |
| 26 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 30 Favesh | case |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 instead | punct |
| 28 | Lok | Lok | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Mac | compound |
| 29 | Mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Favesh | compound |
| 30 | Favesh | Favesh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 sends | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | to-infinitive | Cailitin and counsels | against Cuchullain; Meave nsubj; CUCHULLAIN's loved friend advcl | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | love | participle | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | send | present | Meave | instead Mac Favesh | 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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