The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 103
Then Fergus cried ‘Thou seest my Uladh coming, and the way And fashion of the advent of her war!
Who acts: Fergus, Thou · What happens: cry, see, come, war · To what, where: way, Uladh
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fergus, Thou), 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 | 3 cried | advmod |
| 2 | Fergus | Fergus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 seest | punct |
| 5 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 seest | nsubj |
| 6 | seest | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 cried | conj |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 Uladh | nmod:poss |
| 8 | Uladh | Uladh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 seest | obj |
| 9 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 seest | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 way | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 way | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 way | det |
| 13 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cried | obl |
| 14 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fashion | cc |
| 15 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 way | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 advent | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 advent | det |
| 18 | advent | advent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fashion | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 war | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 war | nmod:poss |
| 21 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 advent | nmod |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Fergus | the way and fashion of the advent of Fergus's war | then | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | see | present | Thou | my Uladh | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer uladh=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | come | gerund | Thou not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | war | Fergus | nom war «act intransitive»: 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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