The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 54
The Firbolg frowned: she faltered, ‘Am I false, False to my race’--and tears were in her voice-- ‘False to my race, who cannot wish such ending?’
Who acts: Firbolg, I, tears, voice, my · What happens: frown, falter, be, not wish, race · To what, where: voice, such ending
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 (Firbolg, I, tears, voice), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Firbolg | det |
| 2 | Firbolg | Firbolg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 frowned | nsubj |
| 3 | frowned | frown | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 faltered | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 faltered | nsubj |
| 6 | faltered | falter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 frowned | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 false | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 false | punct |
| 9 | Am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 false | cop |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 false | nsubj |
| 11 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 faltered | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 False | punct |
| 13 | False | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 false | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 race | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 race | nmod:poss |
| 16 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 false | obl |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 false | punct |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 24 voice | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 voice | cc |
| 20 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 voice | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 voice | cop |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 voice | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 voice | nmod:poss |
| 24 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 frowned | parataxis |
| 25 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 False | punct |
| 26 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 False | punct |
| 27 | False | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 voice | conj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 race | case |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 race | nmod:poss |
| 30 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 False | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 wish | punct |
| 32 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 wish | nsubj |
| 33 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 wish | aux |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 wish | advmod |
| 35 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 voice | parataxis |
| 36 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 ending | amod |
| 37 | ending | ending | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 wish | obj |
| 38 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 35 wish | punct |
| 39 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 35 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frown | past | the Firbolg | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | falter | past | Firbolg | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | present | I | to my race; false property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | I not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | is | past | tears | race's voice | race nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 6 | be | tears not said here | to my race | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | not wish | can | race's voice | such ending | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot ending=Theme | ||||
| 8 | race | my | nom race «event intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | race | my | nom race «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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