The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 30
Late that eve Cuchullain beckoned Leagh; ‘To Conor speed: Speak thus; “Put on thine arms and save thy land Since now the Hound that kept thy gate is dead:-- Make no delay!”’
Who acts: eve, Hound · What happens: beckon, speak, put, save, keep, be · To what, where: Leagh, arms, land, gate, delay · 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 (eve, Hound), 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 | Late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 beckoned | advmod |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 eve | det |
| 3 | eve | eve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 beckoned | nsubj |
| 4 | Cuchullain | Cuchullain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 eve | appos |
| 5 | beckoned | beckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Leagh | Leagh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 beckoned | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 Speak | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 Speak | punct |
| 9 | To | to | ADP | _ | 11 speed | case |
| 10 | Conor | conor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 speed | amod |
| 11 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Speak | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 Speak | punct |
| 13 | Speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 beckoned | conj |
| 14 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 13 Speak | advmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 Put | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Put | punct |
| 17 | Put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 beckoned | conj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 arms | case |
| 19 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 arms | nmod:poss |
| 20 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 Put | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 save | cc |
| 22 | save | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 Put | conj |
| 23 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 24 land | nmod:poss |
| 24 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 save | obj |
| 25 | Since | since | SCONJ | _ | 34 dead | mark |
| 26 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 Hound | advmod |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Hound | det |
| 28 | Hound | hound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 dead | nsubj |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 kept | nsubj |
| 30 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 Hound | acl:relcl |
| 31 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 32 gate | nmod:poss |
| 32 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 kept | obj |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 dead | cop |
| 34 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 save | advcl |
| 35 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 37 Make | punct |
| 36 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 37 Make | punct |
| 37 | Make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 beckoned | parataxis |
| 38 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 39 delay | det |
| 39 | delay | delay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 Make | obj |
| 40 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 37 Make | punct |
| 41 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 Make | punct |
| 42 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 37 Make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beckon | past | that eve | Leagh | late property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | speak speech: other | infinitive | that eve not said here | to Conor speed; thus property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to speed=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | put in a quote | infinitive | that eve not said here | thine arms | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on arm=Destination | ||||
| 4 | save in a quote | present | that eve not said here | thy land | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme | ||||
| 5 | keep in a quote | past | the Hound | thy gate | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | the Hound | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | make in a quote | infinitive | no delay | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset delay=Product |
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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