The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 4
Queen Meave sends her herald to Ferdīa the Firbolg, requiring him to engage with Cuchullain in single combat.
Who acts: Queen · What happens: send, require, engage · To what, where: herald, Ferdīa, single combat
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 (Queen), 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 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sends | nsubj |
| 2 | Meave | Meave | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Queen | flat |
| 3 | sends | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 herald | nmod:poss |
| 5 | herald | herald | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sends | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Ferdīa | case |
| 7 | Ferdīa | Ferdīa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sends | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Firbolg | det |
| 9 | Firbolg | Firbolg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Ferdīa | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 requiring | punct |
| 11 | requiring | require | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 sends | advcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 requiring | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 engage | mark |
| 14 | engage | engage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 requiring | xcomp |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 Cuchullain | case |
| 16 | Cuchullain | Cuchullain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 engage | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 combat | case |
| 18 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 combat | amod |
| 19 | combat | combat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 engage | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | present | Queen | Queen's herald | Ferdīa | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent herald=Theme to ferdīa=Destination | |||
| 2 | require | gerund | Queen not said here | Ferdīa | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | engage | to-infinitive | Queen not said here | single combat | with Cuchullain | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient with cuchullain=Co-Patient |
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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