The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 205
Far away in Scatha’s isle A great troth bound us and a vow eterne Never to raise war-weapons, each on each:-- ’Twas Finobar that snared thee!
Who acts: great troth, vow eterne, Twas · What happens: bound, not raise, snare · To what, where: us, isle, war weapons, thee
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 (great troth, vow eterne, Twas), 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 | Far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 away | advmod |
| 2 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 bound | advmod |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 isle | case |
| 4 | Scatha | Scatha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 isle | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Scatha | case |
| 6 | isle | isle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bound | obl |
| 7 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 troth | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 troth | amod |
| 9 | troth | troth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bound | nsubj |
| 10 | bound | bound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 bound | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 raise | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 eterne | det |
| 14 | vow | vow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 eterne | compound |
| 15 | eterne | eterne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 raise | nsubj |
| 16 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 raise | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 raise | mark |
| 18 | raise | raise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 bound | conj |
| 19 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 weapons | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 war | punct |
| 21 | weapons | weapon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 raise | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 each | punct |
| 23 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 weapons | appos |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 each | case |
| 25 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 each | nmod |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 32 snared | punct |
| 27 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 28 ’ | punct |
| 28 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 32 snared | punct |
| 29 | Twas | Twas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 snared | nsubj |
| 30 | Finobar | Finobar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Twas | flat |
| 31 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 snared | nsubj |
| 32 | snared | snare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 bound | conj |
| 33 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 32 snared | obj |
| 34 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 bound | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bound | present | a great troth | us | Scatha's isle | away property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location we=Theme | ||
| 2 | not raise | to-infinitive | a vow eterne | war weapons | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weapon=Theme | ||||
| 3 | snare | past | Twas | thee | that nsubj | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent thou=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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