The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 121
Forth flashed the eyes Of Finobar--it was their latest flash-- She answered thus; ‘The sequel leave to me!
Who acts: eye, choice, sequel · What happens: flash, be, answer, leave · To what, where: eyes, latest flash, me
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 (eye, choice, sequel), 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 | Forth | forth | ADV | _ | 2 flashed | advmod |
| 2 | flashed | flash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 eyes | det |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 flashed | obj |
| 5 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Finobar | case |
| 6 | Finobar | Finobar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 eyes | nmod |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 flash | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 flash | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 flash | cop |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 flash | nmod:poss |
| 11 | latest | late | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 flash | amod |
| 12 | flash | flash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 flashed | obl |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 answered | punct |
| 14 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 answered | nsubj |
| 15 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 flashed | parataxis |
| 16 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 15 answered | advmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 leave | punct |
| 18 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 leave | punct |
| 19 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sequel | det |
| 20 | sequel | sequel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 leave | nsubj |
| 21 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 flashed | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 me | case |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 leave | obl |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 flashed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flash | past | the eyes of Finobar | forth property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | eye | kings's latest flash | kings = king nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | choice | thus property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | leave | infinitive | the sequel | me | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location |
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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