The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 20
Cuchullain is my friend: Better I died than he!’
Who acts: Cuchullain, I · What happens: be, die · To what, where: 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 (Cuchullain, 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 | Cuchullain | Cuchullain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 friend | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 friend | cop |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 friend | nmod:poss |
| 4 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 Better | punct |
| 6 | Better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 friend | conj |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 died | nsubj |
| 8 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 friend | acl:relcl |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 he | case |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 died | obl |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 friend | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 friend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Cuchullain | my friend | my nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | Cuchullain not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | die | past | I | my friend not said here | than Cuchullain | tree rules |
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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