The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 56
Like one who thinks Not speaks, she murmured low; ‘A soothsayer Thus warned my mother--I was then a child-- “Bring not that maid to war-fields!
Who acts: race, soothsayer, I · What happens: not think, speak, murmur, warn, be, not bring · To what, where: mother, child, maid, war fields · 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, soothsayer, I), 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 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 2 one | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 thinks | obl |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 thinks | nsubj |
| 4 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 thinks | advmod |
| 6 | speaks | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 thinks | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 murmured | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 murmured | nsubj |
| 9 | murmured | murmur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 speaks | parataxis |
| 10 | low | low | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 murmured | advmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 warned | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 warned | punct |
| 13 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 soothsayer | det |
| 14 | soothsayer | soothsayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 warned | nsubj |
| 15 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 16 warned | advmod |
| 16 | warned | warn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thinks | conj |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 mother | nmod:poss |
| 18 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 warned | obj |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 24 child | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 child | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 child | cop |
| 22 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 child | advmod |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 child | det |
| 24 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 mother | conj |
| 25 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 Bring | punct |
| 26 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 Bring | punct |
| 27 | Bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 warned | ccomp |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 Bring | advmod |
| 29 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 maid | det |
| 30 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Bring | obj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 fields | case |
| 32 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 fields | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 war | punct |
| 34 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 Bring | obl |
| 35 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 thinks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other | present | like one; who nsubj | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | present | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | murmur speech: other | past | race | low property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | warn speech: warn | past | a soothsayer | my mother and a child | thus property | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 5 | is a | past | I | a child | then | tree rules | |||
| 6 | not bring in a quote | infinitive | that maid | war fields | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent maid=Theme to field=Destination |
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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