The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 52
Then brake upon him Alp That ruled in far Iorras, speaking thus; ‘Fergus, we love our queen; but love not thee!
Who acts: you, That, we · What happens: break, rule in, speak, love, not love · To what, where: Alp, Iorras, queen, thee · 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 (you, That, we), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 brake | advmod |
| 2 | brake | break | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 brake | obl |
| 5 | Alp | Alp | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 brake | obj |
| 6 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 ruled | nsubj |
| 7 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 brake | advcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADV | _ | 7 ruled | advmod |
| 9 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 Iorras | advmod |
| 10 | Iorras | Iorras | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 ruled | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 speaking | punct |
| 12 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 ruled | advcl |
| 13 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 12 speaking | advmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 Fergus | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 Fergus | punct |
| 16 | Fergus | Fergus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 brake | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 love | punct |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 love | nsubj |
| 19 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 Fergus | acl:relcl |
| 20 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 queen | nmod:poss |
| 21 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 love | obj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 love | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 love | cc |
| 24 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 brake | parataxis |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 love | advmod |
| 26 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 24 love | obl |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 brake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | imperative | you not said here | Alp | then | upon Easy; Fergus obl | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer alp=Patient | ||
| 2 | rule in | past | That | Iorras | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | gerund | That not said here | thus property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | love | present | we | our queen | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer queen=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | not love | present | thee | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
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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