The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 218
That day when he and I triumphed in fight By Formait’s lake o’er Scatha’s pirate foes The woman fetched a beaker forth of wine, And made us drink it both; and made us vow Friendship eterne.
Who acts: death, pirate foes, us · What happens: triumph, fetch, make, drink, vow · To what, where: fight, beaker, us, Friendship eterne
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 (death, pirate foes, us), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 triumphed | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 triumphed | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 triumphed | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 I | cc |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 he | conj |
| 7 | triumphed | triumph | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 fight | case |
| 9 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 triumphed | obl |
| 10 | By | by | ADP | _ | 13 lake | case |
| 11 | Formait | Formait | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 lake | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 Formait | case |
| 13 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 triumphed | obl |
| 14 | o’er | o' | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 triumphed | xcomp |
| 15 | Scatha | Scatha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 foes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 Scatha | case |
| 17 | pirate | pirate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 foes | compound |
| 18 | foes | foe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 fetched | nsubj |
| 19 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 woman | det |
| 20 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fetched | nsubj |
| 21 | fetched | fetch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 triumphed | parataxis |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 beaker | det |
| 23 | beaker | beaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fetched | obj |
| 24 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 21 fetched | advmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 wine | case |
| 26 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 forth | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 made | punct |
| 28 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 made | cc |
| 29 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 triumphed | conj |
| 30 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 made | obj |
| 31 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 made | xcomp |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 drink | obj |
| 33 | both | both | ADV | _ | 31 drink | advmod |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 made | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 made | cc |
| 36 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 triumphed | conj |
| 37 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 made | obj |
| 38 | vow | vow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 made | xcomp |
| 39 | Friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 eterne | compound |
| 40 | eterne | eterne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 vow | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 triumphed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | triumph | past | death | fight | day | by Formait's lake; o' property | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||
| 2 | fetch | past | Scatha's pirate foes | a beaker | the woman nsubj; forth property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beaker=Theme | |||
| 3 | make | past | death not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | drink | infinitive | us not said here | beaker | both property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 5 | make | past | death not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | vow | infinitive | us not said here | Friendship eterne | 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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