The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 39
Rose a chief Aulnau, the son of Magach, one whose pride Was not in war-deeds but in crafty brain, And thus made answer.
Who acts: one pride, war deeds · What happens: rise, not be, make, pride · To what, where: Aulnau, war deeds
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 pride, war deeds), 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 | Rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 Aulnau | det |
| 3 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Aulnau | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Aulnau | Aulnau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Rose | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 son | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 son | det |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Aulnau | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Magach | case |
| 9 | Magach | Magach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 son | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 deeds | punct |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 pride | nummod |
| 12 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 13 pride | nmod:poss |
| 13 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 deeds | nsubj |
| 14 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 deeds | cop |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 deeds | advmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 deeds | case |
| 17 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 deeds | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 war | punct |
| 19 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Aulnau | appos |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 brain | cc |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 brain | case |
| 22 | crafty | crafty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 brain | amod |
| 23 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 deeds | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 answer | punct |
| 25 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 answer | cc |
| 26 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 27 made | advmod |
| 27 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 answer | amod |
| 28 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Rose | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | a Aulnau chief | made answer conj | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not is | past | war deeds but crafty brain's one pride | war deeds but crafty brain | crafty brain conj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | make | participle | thus property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 4 | pride | war deeds but crafty brain | nom pride «feeling 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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