The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 10
In her ear once more Sounded the word of Cailitin; ‘The man To fight Cuchullain is the man he loves: His death were death to both.’
Who acts: man, death · What happens: sound, fight, be, love, word, die · To what, where: word, ear, Cuchullain, man, death, Cailitin
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, death), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 ear | case |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 ear | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Sounded | obl |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 Sounded | advmod |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 Sounded | advmod |
| 6 | Sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 man | parataxis |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 word | det |
| 8 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Sounded | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Cailitin | case |
| 10 | Cailitin | Cailitin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 word | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 man | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 man | punct |
| 13 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 man | nsubj |
| 15 | To | to | PART | _ | 16 fight | mark |
| 16 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 man | acl |
| 17 | Cuchullain | Cuchullain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 fight | obj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 man | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 loves | nsubj |
| 22 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 man | acl:relcl |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 death | punct |
| 24 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 death | nmod:poss |
| 25 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 death | nsubj |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 death | cop |
| 27 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 man | parataxis |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 both | case |
| 29 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 death | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 death | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 death | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | past | the word of Cailitin | Queen's ear | once property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location word=Theme | |||
| 2 | fight | to-infinitive | the man not said here | Cuchullain | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cuchullain=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the man | the man | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | love | present | man | the man not said here | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | man's death | death | to both | tree rules | |||
| 6 | word | Cailitin | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | die | man | nom death «event 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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