The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 186
Ferdīa spake, ‘No Firbolg he, the man in Scatha’s Isle, That won a maid, then left her!’
Who acts: Ferdīa spake · What happens: win, leave · To what, where: maid, Firbolg
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 (Ferdīa spake), 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 | Ferdīa | Ferdīa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 spake | compound |
| 2 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 won | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 spake | punct |
| 4 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 Firbolg | punct |
| 5 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 Firbolg | det |
| 6 | Firbolg | Firbolg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 won | nsubj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 Firbolg | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 man | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Firbolg | appos |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 Isle | case |
| 12 | Scatha | Scatha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Isle | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 Scatha | case |
| 14 | Isle | Isle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 man | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 won | punct |
| 16 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 won | nsubj |
| 17 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 maid | det |
| 19 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 won | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 left | punct |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 left | advmod |
| 22 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 won | advcl |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 left | obj |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 22 left | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | past | Ferdīa spake | a maid | no Firbolg nsubj; That nsubj | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maid=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | leave | past | Ferdīa spake not said here | Firbolg | then | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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