The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 82
‘I march not hence’ He said, ‘till Uladh’s wound is wholly healed;-- Fergus I deem the sage of battle-fields, Though fool in all beside.’
Who acts: I, Conor, Uladh · What happens: not march, say, heal, deem, wound · To what, where: Fergus, fool · 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 (I, Conor, Uladh), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 march | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 march | nsubj |
| 3 | march | march | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 march | advmod |
| 5 | hence | hence | ADV | _ | 3 march | advmod |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 march | punct |
| 7 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 healed | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 healed | punct |
| 11 | till | till | ADP | _ | 14 wound | case |
| 12 | Uladh | Uladh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 wound | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 Uladh | case |
| 14 | wound | wound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 healed | obl |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 healed | aux:pass |
| 16 | wholly | wholly | ADV | _ | 17 healed | advmod |
| 17 | healed | heal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 said | ccomp |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 deem | punct |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 Fergus | punct |
| 20 | Fergus | Fergus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 deem | obl |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 deem | nsubj |
| 22 | deem | deem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sage | det |
| 24 | sage | sage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 deem | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 fields | case |
| 26 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fields | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 battle | punct |
| 28 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 sage | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 fool | punct |
| 30 | Though | though | SCONJ | _ | 31 fool | mark |
| 31 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 deem | obl |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 all | case |
| 33 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 fool | nmod |
| 34 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 31 fool | case |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 36 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not march | present | I | hence property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Conor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | heal | present · passive | till Uladh's wound | wholly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V» | ||||
| 4 | deem | present | I | Fergus | fool in all | the sage of battle fields obj | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent sage=Attribute | ||
| 5 | wound | Uladh | nom wound «state 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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