The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 118
Ere long they learned Rochad that site had chos’n, with Uladh’s King Friendly but half, thence slow to prop his cause.
Who acts: ’, site · What happens: learn, have, prop, cause · To what, where: Rochad, that, cause · 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 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (’, site), 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 | Ere | ere | ADV | _ | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 learned | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 learned | nsubj |
| 4 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Rochad | Rochad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 learned | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 had | obj |
| 7 | site | site | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 learned | ccomp |
| 9 | chos’n | chos'n | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Friendly | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 Friendly | case |
| 12 | Uladh | Uladh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Friendly | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 Uladh | case |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Friendly | nmod:desc |
| 15 | Friendly | Friendly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obl |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 half | cc |
| 17 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 15 Friendly | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 slow | punct |
| 19 | thence | thence | ADV | _ | 20 slow | advmod |
| 20 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 learned | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 prop | mark |
| 22 | prop | prop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 slow | xcomp |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 cause | nmod:poss |
| 24 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 prop | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 learned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past | ’ = ' | Rochad | long property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | past | site | that | with Uladh's Friendly King but half; chos’n obj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | prop | to-infinitive | ’ = ' not said here | site's cause | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | cause | site | nom cause «event 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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