The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 11
Then came the kings Confederate, saying; ‘Send Ferdīa forth!
What happens: come, say, send · To what, where: kings, Ferdīa · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 came | advmod |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 kings | det |
| 4 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 came | obj |
| 5 | Confederate | Confederate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 kings | flat |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 saying | punct |
| 7 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 came | advcl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 Send | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 Send | punct |
| 10 | Send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 saying | ccomp |
| 11 | Ferdīa | Ferdīa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Send | obj |
| 12 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 10 Send | advmod |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the kings | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location king=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | send | infinitive | Ferdīa | forth property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ferdīa=Theme |
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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