The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 117
Fergus replied; ‘I take mine own: but one month past, this sword Had cut the cancer out of Uladh’s breast, And made thy throne a praise on earth for aye!
Who acts: Fergus, I · What happens: reply, take, cut, make, throne · To what, where: mine, one month, breast, praise, earth · 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 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, I), 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 | Fergus | Fergus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 replied | nsubj |
| 2 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 take | punct |
| 4 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 take | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 take | nsubj |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 replied | ccomp |
| 7 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 take | obj |
| 8 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 take | obj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 cut | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 cut | cc |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 month | nummod |
| 12 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | past | past | ADV | _ | 12 month | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sword | punct |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 sword | det |
| 16 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | Had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 cut | aux |
| 18 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 replied | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cancer | det |
| 20 | cancer | cancer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cut | obj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 breast | case |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 breast | case |
| 23 | Uladh | Uladh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 breast | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 Uladh | case |
| 25 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cut | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 made | punct |
| 27 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 made | cc |
| 28 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 replied | conj |
| 29 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 30 throne | nmod:poss |
| 30 | throne | throne | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 made | xcomp |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 praise | det |
| 32 | praise | praise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 throne | obj |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 earth | case |
| 34 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 praise | nmod |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 aye | case |
| 36 | aye | aye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 earth | nmod |
| 37 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Fergus | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | take | present | I | mine | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument my=Theme own=Destination | ||||
| 3 | cut | past · perfect · passive | one month | Uladh's breast | this sword nsubj:pass; the cancer obj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary cancer=Product | |||
| 4 | make | past | Fergus not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | throne | infinitive | Fergus not said here | a praise | earth for aye | thy nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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