The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 80
Before the queen Boastful the sea-king laid his club, and spake: ‘Queen, though to combat with a beardless boy Affronts my name, my lineage, and my strength, His petulance shall vex thine eye no more!
Who acts: sea king, petulance, my · What happens: lay, combat, vex, name · To what, where: club, eye
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 (sea king, petulance, my), 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 | Before | before | ADP | _ | 3 queen | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 queen | det |
| 3 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 laid | obl |
| 4 | Boastful | Boastful | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 queen | appos |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 6 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 king | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 sea | punct |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 laid | nsubj |
| 9 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 club | nmod:poss |
| 11 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 laid | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 spake | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 spake | cc |
| 14 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 laid | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 Queen | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 Queen | punct |
| 17 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 spake | appos |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 combat | punct |
| 19 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 21 combat | mark |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 combat | mark |
| 21 | combat | combat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 laid | conj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 Affronts | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 Affronts | det |
| 24 | beardless | beardless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Affronts | amod |
| 25 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Affronts | compound |
| 26 | Affronts | affront | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 combat | obl |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 name | nmod:poss |
| 28 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Affronts | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 lineage | punct |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 lineage | nmod:poss |
| 31 | lineage | lineage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Affronts | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 strength | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 strength | cc |
| 34 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 strength | nmod:poss |
| 35 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 laid | parataxis |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 vex | punct |
| 37 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 petulance | nmod:poss |
| 38 | petulance | petulance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 vex | nsubj |
| 39 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 vex | aux |
| 40 | vex | vex | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 strength | acl:relcl |
| 41 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 42 eye | nmod:poss |
| 42 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 vex | obj |
| 43 | no | no | ADV | _ | 44 more | advmod |
| 44 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 40 vex | advmod |
| 45 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | past | the sea king | King's club | before the queen | spake obl; my strength parataxis | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent club=Theme before queen=Destination | ||
| 2 | combat | to-infinitive | the sea king not said here | with a beardless boy Affronts my name and my lineage | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with affront=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | vex | shall | King's petulance | thine eye | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus eye=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | name | my | nom name «communication transitive»: 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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