The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 95
Ketherne laughed loud: ‘My choice is quickly made-- Three months bed-ridden, or one vengeance day Joyous and glorious!
Who acts: Ketherne · What happens: laugh, make, ride · To what, where: choice, Three months
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 (Ketherne), 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 | Ketherne | Ketherne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 laughed | nsubj |
| 2 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | loud | loud | ADV | _ | 2 laughed | advmod |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 laughed | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
| 6 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 choice | nmod:poss |
| 7 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 made | aux:pass |
| 9 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 10 made | advmod |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 laughed | parataxis |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 ridden | punct |
| 12 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 months | nummod |
| 13 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 ridden | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ridden | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 bed | punct |
| 16 | ridden | ride | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 made | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Joyous | punct |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 Joyous | cc |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 day | nummod |
| 20 | vengeance | vengeance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 day | compound |
| 21 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Joyous | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | Joyous | joyous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 laughed | parataxis |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 glorious | cc |
| 24 | glorious | glorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Joyous | conj |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | Ketherne | loud property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | make | present · passive | My choice | quickly property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 3 | ride | participle · passive | Three months | bed compound | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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