The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 11
Finobar is fain to draw Rochad to the cause of her mother, but fails.
Who acts: Finobar · What happens: be, draw, fail, cause · To what, where: Rochad, cause, mother
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Finobar), 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 | Finobar | Finobar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 fain | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fain | cop |
| 3 | fain | fain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 draw | mark |
| 5 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 fain | xcomp |
| 6 | Rochad | Rochad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 draw | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 cause | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cause | det |
| 9 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 draw | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 mother | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mother | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cause | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fails | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 fails | cc |
| 15 | fails | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fain | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Finobar | fain property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | draw | to-infinitive | Finobar not said here | Rochad | the cause of Finobar's mother | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent rochad=Theme to cause=Destination | |||
| 3 | fail | present | Finobar not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | cause | Finobar's mother | nom cause «event 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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