The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 115
To Finobar The one thing yet remaining was her pride: Questioned, her answer ever was the same, ‘Onward, to Eman!’
Who acts: one thing, pride, Finobar · What happens: remain, be, question, answer · To what, where: pride, Finobar, answer, Eman
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 (one thing, pride, 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 2 Finobar | case |
| 2 | Finobar | Finobar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 pride | obl |
| 3 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 thing | det |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 thing | nummod |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pride | nsubj |
| 6 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 7 remaining | advmod |
| 7 | remaining | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 thing | acl |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 pride | cop |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 pride | nmod:poss |
| 10 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 Questioned | punct |
| 12 | Questioned | question | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 pride | acl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 answer | punct |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 answer | nmod:poss |
| 15 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Questioned | obj |
| 16 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 19 same | advmod |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 same | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 same | det |
| 19 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 answer | amod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Onward | punct |
| 21 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 Onward | punct |
| 22 | Onward | onward | ADV | _ | 12 Questioned | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Eman | punct |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 Eman | case |
| 25 | Eman | Eman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Questioned | obl |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 pride | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 pride | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | gerund | the one thing not said here | yet | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the one thing | Finobar's pride | Finobar | tree rules | |||
| 3 | question speech: other | participle | Finobar's pride not said here | Finobar's answer | Eman | onward property | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Recipient | ||
| 4 | is | past | ever | same property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | answer | Finobar | nom answer «communication transitive»: 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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