The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 147
The doomed one answered calm, ‘Cuchullain, slow of foot, but strong of hand Fate drags his victim to the spot decreed: The choice to-day is mine: I choose the sword.’
Who acts: doomed one, Fate, choice, I · What happens: doom, answer, drag, decree, be, choose · To what, where: Cuchullain, victim, mine, sword
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 (doomed one, Fate, choice, I), 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 one | det |
| 2 | doomed | doom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 one | amod |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 answered | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Cuchullain | punct |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 Cuchullain | punct |
| 8 | Cuchullain | Cuchullain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 slow | punct |
| 10 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Cuchullain | amod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 foot | case |
| 12 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 slow | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 strong | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 strong | cc |
| 15 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 drags | advmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 hand | case |
| 17 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 drags | obl |
| 18 | Fate | Fate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 drags | nsubj |
| 19 | drags | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 decreed | advcl |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 victim | nmod:poss |
| 21 | victim | victim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 drags | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 spot | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 spot | det |
| 24 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 decreed | obl |
| 25 | decreed | decree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 answered | parataxis |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 33 mine | punct |
| 27 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 choice | det |
| 28 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 mine | nsubj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 day | case |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 to | punct |
| 31 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 choice | nmod |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 mine | cop |
| 33 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 decreed | conj |
| 34 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 36 choose | punct |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 choose | nsubj |
| 36 | choose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 decreed | conj |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 sword | det |
| 38 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 choose | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 answered | punct |
| 40 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | doom | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the doomed one | Cuchullain | calm property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | drag | present | Fate | Cuchullain's victim | of hand | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent victim=Theme of hand=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | decree | past | to the spot | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | present | the choice to day | mine | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | choose | present | I | the sword | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=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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