The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 192
To earth the warrior sank: Dying, he spake: ‘Not thine this deed, O friend-- ’Twas Meave who winged that bolt into my heart!’
Who acts: warrior, Dying, ’ Twas, that · What happens: sink, speak, wing, bolt · To what, where: earth, heart · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (warrior, Dying, ’ Twas, that), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 earth | mark |
| 2 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 warrior | det |
| 4 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sank | nsubj |
| 5 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 earth | acl:relcl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 Dying | punct |
| 7 | Dying | Dying | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 earth | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 spake | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 spake | nsubj |
| 10 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Dying | appos |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 deed | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 deed | punct |
| 13 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 deed | advmod |
| 14 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 deed | nmod:poss |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 deed | det |
| 16 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 earth | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 friend | punct |
| 18 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 19 friend | discourse |
| 19 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 deed | conj |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 Twas | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Twas | compound |
| 22 | Twas | twa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 deed | conj |
| 23 | Meave | Meave | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Twas | appos |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 winged | nsubj |
| 25 | winged | wing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 Twas | acl:relcl |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 bolt | nsubj |
| 27 | bolt | bolt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 winged | ccomp |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 heart | case |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 heart | nmod:poss |
| 30 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bolt | obl |
| 31 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 deed | punct |
| 32 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 deed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink | past | the warrior | earth and Dying and thine deed and friend and ’ Twas not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent earth=Patient | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | Dying | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | wing | past | ’ Twas | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | bolt | present | that | my heart | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into heart=Initial_Location |
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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