The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 140
The second morn They met at sunrise:--‘Thine the choice of arms;’ The Firbolg spake; the Gael made answer; ‘Spears!’
Who acts: second morn, Gael · What happens: meet, make · To what, where: Firbolg spake, answer
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 (second morn, Gael), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morn | det |
| 2 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 morn | amod |
| 3 | morn | morn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 met | nsubj |
| 4 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 met | nsubj |
| 5 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 sunrise | case |
| 7 | sunrise | sunrise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 met | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 choice | punct |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 choice | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 choice | punct |
| 11 | Thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 choice | nmod:poss |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 choice | det |
| 13 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 met | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 arms | case |
| 15 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 choice | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 spake | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 spake | punct |
| 18 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 spake | det |
| 19 | Firbolg | Firbolg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 spake | compound |
| 20 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 met | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 made | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Gael | det |
| 23 | Gael | Gael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 made | nsubj |
| 24 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 met | conj |
| 25 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 made | obj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 Spears | punct |
| 27 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 Spears | punct |
| 28 | Spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 made | obj |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 28 Spears | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | the second morn | the Firbolg spake | sunrise | nerve nsubj; Thine choice of arms conj | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | make | past | the Gael | answer | Spears obj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset answer=Beneficiary spear=Product |
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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