The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 55
She paused; again she questioned of his wars: He told her of his sire’s.
Who acts: race, voice · What happens: pause, question, tell, war · To what, where: race · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (race, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 paused | nsubj |
| 2 | paused | pause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 questioned | punct |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 questioned | advmod |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 questioned | nsubj |
| 6 | questioned | question | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 paused | conj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 wars | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wars | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wars | war | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 questioned | obl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 told | punct |
| 11 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 told | nsubj |
| 12 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 paused | conj |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 told | iobj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 sire | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 sire | nmod:poss |
| 16 | sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 told | obl |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 sire | case |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 paused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pause | past | race | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | question speech: other | past | race | again | of voice's wars | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | voice | race | of voice's sire | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | |||
| 4 | war | voice | nom war «act 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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