The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 6
The confederate kings fall out among themselves; Meave summons a war council; whereupon there bursts forth a second contention between them and the Exile-Band.
Who acts: confederate kings, Meave · What happens: fall out, summon, burst · To what, where: war council, second contention
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 (confederate kings, Meave), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 kings | det |
| 2 | confederate | confederate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kings | compound |
| 3 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fall | nsubj |
| 4 | fall | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 fall | advmod |
| 6 | among | among | ADP | _ | 7 themselves | case |
| 7 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 fall | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 summons | punct |
| 9 | Meave | Meave | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 summons | nsubj |
| 10 | summons | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fall | parataxis |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 council | det |
| 12 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 council | compound |
| 13 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 summons | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 bursts | punct |
| 15 | whereupon | whereupon | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 bursts | advmod |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 bursts | expl |
| 17 | bursts | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fall | conj |
| 18 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 17 bursts | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 contention | det |
| 20 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 21 contention | amod |
| 21 | contention | contention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bursts | obj |
| 22 | between | between | ADP | _ | 23 them | case |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 contention | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 Band | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Band | det |
| 26 | Exile | Exile | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Band | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 Exile | punct |
| 28 | Band | Band | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 them | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall out | present | the confederate kings | among kings = king; out property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme among themselves=Location | ||||
| 2 | summon | present | Meave | a war council | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent council=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | burst | present | the confederate kings not said here | a second contention | there | between kings = king; forth, whereupon property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location contention=Theme |
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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