The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 158
Not less a battle waits thee great and dread ’Twixt Gairig and Ilgairig.’
Who acts: battle · What happens: wait, dread · To what, where: thee, Twixt Gairig
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 (battle), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 less | advmod |
| 2 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 waits | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 battle | det |
| 4 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 waits | nsubj |
| 5 | waits | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 waits | obj |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 waits | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 dread | cc |
| 9 | dread | dread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 waits | conj |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 Gairig | punct |
| 11 | Twixt | Twixt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Gairig | compound |
| 12 | Gairig | Gairig | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 dread | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Ilgairig | cc |
| 14 | Ilgairig | Ilgairig | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Gairig | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 waits | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 waits | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | present | a battle | thee | great, less property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | dread | present | a battle not said here | Twixt Gairig and Ilgairig | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gairig=Stimulus |
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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