The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 120
This day thou com’st invader of my land Murthemné, bulwark broad of Uladh’s realm; Thou com’st to burn my cities, spoil my flocks-- A change there is, Ferdīa!’
Who acts: Thou, change · What happens: com'st, burn, spoil, be · To what, where: cities, flocks, com’st invader
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 (Thou, change), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 invader | nsubj |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 invader | nsubj |
| 4 | com’st | com' | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 invader | amod |
| 5 | invader | invader | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 land | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 land | nmod:poss |
| 8 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 invader | nmod |
| 9 | Murthemné | Murthemné | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 land | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 broad | punct |
| 11 | bulwark | bulwark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 broad | compound |
| 12 | broad | broad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Murthemné | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 realm | case |
| 14 | Uladh | Uladh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 realm | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 Uladh | case |
| 16 | realm | realm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 broad | nmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 com’st | punct |
| 18 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 com’st | nsubj |
| 19 | com’st | com'st | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 invader | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 burn | mark |
| 21 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 com’st | acl |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 cities | nmod:poss |
| 23 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 burn | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 spoil | punct |
| 25 | spoil | spoil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 burn | conj |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 flocks | nmod:poss |
| 27 | flocks | flock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 spoil | obj |
| 28 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 30 change | punct |
| 29 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 change | det |
| 30 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 invader | conj |
| 31 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 32 is | expl |
| 32 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 change | acl:relcl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Ferdīa | punct |
| 34 | Ferdīa | Ferdīa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 invader | appos |
| 35 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 34 Ferdīa | punct |
| 36 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 invader | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | com'st | Thou | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | burn | to-infinitive | my cities | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent city=Theme | |||||
| 3 | spoil | infinitive | my flocks | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | be | present | a change not said here | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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