The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 113
Of these the last Was Rochad, and the proudest, in the North A vassal prince of Conor’s, oft his foe: The passion she had kindled she had scorned: Rochad had vowed revenge.
Who acts: foe, Rochad · What happens: kindle, scorn, vow · To what, where: passion, foe, revenge
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 (foe, Rochad), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Rochad | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 Rochad | det |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Rochad | det |
| 4 | last | Last | PROPN | _ | 6 Rochad | compound |
| 5 | Was | Was | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Rochad | compound |
| 6 | Rochad | Rochad | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 proudest | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 proudest | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 proudest | det |
| 10 | proudest | proud | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 Rochad | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 North | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 North | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 North | det |
| 14 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Rochad | conj |
| 15 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 prince | det |
| 16 | vassal | vassal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 prince | amod |
| 17 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Rochad | appos |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Conor | case |
| 19 | Conor | Conor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 prince | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 Conor | case |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 oft | punct |
| 22 | oft | oft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 prince | conj |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 foe | nmod:poss |
| 24 | foe | foe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 oft | nsubj |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 30 kindled | punct |
| 26 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 passion | det |
| 27 | passion | passion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 kindled | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 kindled | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 kindled | aux |
| 30 | kindled | kindle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 foe | acl:relcl |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 scorned | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 scorned | aux |
| 33 | scorned | scorn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 kindled | conj |
| 34 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 37 vowed | punct |
| 35 | Rochad | Rochad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 vowed | nsubj |
| 36 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 vowed | aux |
| 37 | vowed | vow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 Rochad | parataxis |
| 38 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 vowed | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 37 vowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kindle | past · perfect · passive | Conor's foe not said here | the passion | foe nsubj:pass | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | scorn | past · perfect · passive | foe | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | vow | past · perfect | Rochad | revenge | tree rules |
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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