The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 213

There are who deem Cuchullain’s tent that night was near the Well Where, purer far, more late the royal maids Fedelm and Ethna met that saint who gave To God the isle of Fate.

Who acts: tent, Well, saint · What happens: be, deem, meet, give · To what, where: Well, isle, To God

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 (tent, Well, saint), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 are	expl
2	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 deem	nsubj
4	deem	deem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 are	ccomp
5	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 tent	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 Cuchullain	case
7	tent	tent	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Well	nsubj
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 night	det
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Well	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 Well	cop
11	near	near	ADP	_	13 Well	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Well	det
13	Well	Well	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 met	nsubj
14	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 Well	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 purer	punct
16	purer	pure	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 Well	amod
17	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 purer	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 maids	punct
19	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 late	advmod
20	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 maids	amod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 maids	det
22	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 maids	amod
23	maids	maid	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 met	nsubj
24	Fedelm	Fedelm	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 met	nsubj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 Ethna	cc
26	Ethna	Ethna	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Fedelm	conj
27	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 are	parataxis
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 met	obj
29	saint	saint	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 that	fixed
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 gave	nsubj
31	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 saint	acl:relcl
32	To	To	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 God	compound
33	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 gave	obj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 isle	det
35	isle	isle	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 gave	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 Fate	case
37	Fate	Fate	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 isle	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 are	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present				there		tree rules
2	deem	present					who nsubj	vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	Cuchullain's tent			the Well		tree rules
4	meet	past	the Well				the late royal maids nsubj; Fedelm and Ethna nsubj	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Co-Agent
5	give	past	saint	the isle of Fate	To God			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent god=Recipient isle=Theme

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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🌲 The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 213

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The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 213