The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 175
He turned: he spake: ‘Take hence that reptile:--holy is this plain!
Who acts: ne’er · What happens: turn, speak, take, be · To what, where: reptile, holy plain · 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 (ne’er), 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 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 spake | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 spake | nsubj |
| 5 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turned | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 Take | punct |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 Take | punct |
| 8 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 spake | appos |
| 9 | hence | hence | ADV | _ | 8 Take | advmod |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 reptile | det |
| 11 | reptile | reptile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Take | obj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 Take | punct |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 plain | punct |
| 14 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 plain | amod |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 plain | cop |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 plain | det |
| 17 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spake | conj |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | ne’er = ne'er | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | ne’er = ne'er | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | take | infinitive | that reptile | hence property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reptile=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | ne’er = ne'er not said here | this holy plain | 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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