The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 5
Ferdīa refuses to fight against his ancient friend; yet, later he attends a royal banquet given in his honour; and there, being drawn aside through the witcheries of the Princess Finobar, he consents to the fight.
Who acts: Ferdīa · What happens: refuse, not fight, attend, give, draw, consent · To what, where: royal banquet, honour, witcheries, Princess Finobar
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 (Ferdīa), 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 | Ferdīa | Ferdīa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 refuses | nsubj |
| 2 | refuses | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 fight | mark |
| 4 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 refuses | xcomp |
| 5 | against | against | ADP | _ | 8 friend | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 friend | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 friend | amod |
| 8 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fight | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 attends | punct |
| 10 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 12 later | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 yet | punct |
| 12 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 attends | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 attends | nsubj |
| 14 | attends | attend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 refuses | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 banquet | det |
| 16 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 banquet | amod |
| 17 | banquet | banquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 attends | obj |
| 18 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 banquet | acl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 honour | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 honour | nmod:poss |
| 21 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 given | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 there | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 there | cc |
| 24 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 attends | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 drawn | punct |
| 26 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 drawn | aux:pass |
| 27 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 attends | advcl |
| 28 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 27 drawn | advmod |
| 29 | through | through | ADP | _ | 31 witcheries | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 witcheries | det |
| 31 | witcheries | witchery | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 drawn | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 Finobar | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Finobar | det |
| 34 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Finobar | compound |
| 35 | Finobar | Finobar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 witcheries | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 consents | punct |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 consents | nsubj |
| 38 | consents | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 refuses | conj |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 fight | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 fight | det |
| 41 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 consents | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 refuses | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | present | Ferdīa | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not fight | to-infinitive | Ferdīa not said here | against Ferdīa's ancient friend | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | attend | present | Ferdīa | a royal banquet | there | yet | late property | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme banquet=Goal | |
| 4 | give | participle | a royal banquet not said here | Ferdīa's honour | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | draw | gerund · passive | Ferdīa not said here | the witcheries of the Princess Finobar | aside property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V» | |||
| 6 | consent | present | Ferdīa | to the fight | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to fight=Theme | ||||
| 7 | honour | Ferdīa | nom honour «state transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | witch | the Princess Finobar | nom witchery «cognition transitive»: of=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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