The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 174
Fergus ne’er had scorned A look like his that hour.
What happens: scorn · To what, where: Fergus ne’er
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: 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 ne’er | compound |
| 2 | ne’er | ne'er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 scorned | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 scorned | aux |
| 4 | scorned | scorn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 look | det |
| 6 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 scorned | obj |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 hour | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hour | nmod:poss |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 hour | det |
| 10 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 look | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 scorned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scorn | past · perfect · passive | Fergus ne’er | a look obj | 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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