The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 185
Then first the Gael Hurled forth this taunt; ‘The Firbolg, bribed by Meave, Has sold his ancient friend!’
Who acts: Gael, Firbolg · What happens: hurl, bribe, sell · To what, where: taunt, Firbolg, ancient friend
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 (Gael, Firbolg), 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 | 5 Hurled | advmod |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 Hurled | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Gael | det |
| 4 | Gael | Gael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Hurled | nsubj |
| 5 | Hurled | hurl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 5 Hurled | advmod |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 taunt | det |
| 8 | taunt | taunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Hurled | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 sold | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 sold | punct |
| 11 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Firbolg | det |
| 12 | Firbolg | Firbolg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 sold | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bribed | punct |
| 14 | bribed | bribe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 Firbolg | acl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 Meave | case |
| 16 | Meave | Meave | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 bribed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sold | punct |
| 18 | Has | Has | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 sold | nsubj |
| 19 | sold | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Hurled | parataxis |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 friend | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 friend | amod |
| 22 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sold | obj |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 19 sold | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 sold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurl | past | the Gael | this taunt | then | first, forth property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taunt=Theme | ||
| 2 | bribe | participle | the Firbolg not said here | by Meave | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | sell | past | the Firbolg | Has's ancient friend | Has nsubj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=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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