The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 6
The charioteer of Ferdīa sees Cuchullain advancing in his war-car to the Ford, and, rapt by a prophetic spirit, sings his triumph.
Who acts: charioteer, Cuchullain, Ferdīa · What happens: see, advance, sing, triumph · To what, where: Cuchullain, war car, triumph
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 (charioteer, Cuchullain, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 charioteer | det |
| 2 | charioteer | charioteer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sees | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Ferdīa | case |
| 4 | Ferdīa | Ferdīa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 charioteer | nmod |
| 5 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Cuchullain | Cuchullain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sees | obj |
| 7 | advancing | advance | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 sees | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 car | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 car | nmod:poss |
| 10 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 car | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 war | punct |
| 12 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 advancing | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Ford | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Ford | det |
| 15 | Ford | Ford | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 advancing | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 sings | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 sings | cc |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rapt | punct |
| 19 | rapt | rapt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 sings | csubj |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 spirit | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 spirit | det |
| 22 | prophetic | prophetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 spirit | amod |
| 23 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rapt | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 sings | punct |
| 25 | sings | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sees | conj |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 triumph | nmod:poss |
| 27 | triumph | triumph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sings | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sees | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | the charioteer of Ferdīa | Cuchullain | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | advance | gerund | Cuchullain not said here | Ferdīa's war car | to the Ford | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ford=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | sing speech: express | present | the charioteer of Ferdīa not said here | Ferdīa's triumph | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location triumph=Theme | ||||
| 4 | triumph | Ferdīa | nom triumph «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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