The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 173
He spake these words alone: ‘My father!--Spare him!’
Who acts: Had · What happens: speak, spare · To what, where: words, Had · 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 (Had), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 spake | nsubj |
| 2 | spake | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 words | det |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 spake | obj |
| 5 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 2 spake | advmod |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 spake | punct |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 father | punct |
| 8 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 father | nmod:poss |
| 9 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spake | parataxis |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 father | punct |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 Spare | punct |
| 12 | Spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 father | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 Spare | obj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 father | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 father | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | Had | this words | My father parataxis; alone property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | spare | infinitive | Had not said here | Had | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Asset |
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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