The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 71
Ferdīa dies--thus much mine art foreshews-- Then I, since magic spells have puissance most Upon a soul depressed and body sick, Fall on him with my seven and twenty sons, Magicians all.
Who acts: Ferdīa, mine, magic spells · What happens: die, foreshew, have, fall · To what, where: puissance
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 (Ferdīa, mine, magic spells), 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 | Ferdīa | Ferdīa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 dies | nsubj |
| 2 | dies | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 foreshews | punct |
| 4 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 8 foreshews | advmod |
| 6 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 foreshews | nsubj |
| 7 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 foreshews | compound |
| 8 | foreshews | foreshew | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 dies | advcl |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 I | punct |
| 10 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 I | advmod |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 dies | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 13 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 16 have | mark |
| 14 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 spells | compound |
| 15 | spells | spell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 have | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 dies | parataxis |
| 17 | puissance | puissance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 have | obj |
| 18 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 puissance | nmod |
| 19 | Upon | upon | ADP | _ | 21 soul | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 soul | det |
| 21 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 most | nmod |
| 22 | depressed | depressed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 soul | amod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 sick | cc |
| 24 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sick | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 depressed | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Fall | punct |
| 27 | Fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 have | conj |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 him | case |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 Fall | obl |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 sons | case |
| 31 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 sons | nmod:poss |
| 32 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 sons | nummod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 twenty | cc |
| 34 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 seven | conj |
| 35 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 Fall | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 Magicians | punct |
| 37 | Magicians | Magician | PROPN | Number=Plur | 35 sons | conj |
| 38 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 37 Magicians | flat |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | present | Ferdīa | I conj | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | foreshew | mine | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | have | present | magic spells | puissance most upon a soul | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puissance=Patient | ||||
| 4 | fall | infinitive | magic spells not said here | on Ferdīa; with my seven sons and Magicians | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on he=Location |
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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