The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 227
And he, without awaking, answered thus; ‘I heard the birds in Eimer’s pleasaunce sing To greet our marriage morn.’
Who acts: Cuchullain, I · What happens: awake, answer, hear, greet · To what, where: birds, pleasaunce sing, marriage morn
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 (Cuchullain, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 awaking | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 awaking | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 awaking | punct |
| 4 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 5 awaking | mark |
| 5 | awaking | awake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 awaking | parataxis |
| 8 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 7 answered | advmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 heard | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 heard | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 heard | nsubj |
| 12 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 awaking | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 birds | det |
| 14 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 heard | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 sing | case |
| 16 | Eimer | Eimer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 sing | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 Eimer | case |
| 18 | pleasaunce | pleasaunce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sing | compound |
| 19 | sing | sing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heard | obl |
| 20 | To | to | PART | _ | 21 greet | mark |
| 21 | greet | greet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 heard | advcl |
| 22 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 morn | nmod:poss |
| 23 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 morn | compound |
| 24 | morn | morn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 greet | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 awaking | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 awaking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | gerund | Cuchullain | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | thus property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hear | past | I | the birds | Eimer's pleasaunce sing | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | greet speech: greet | to-infinitive | I not said here | our marriage morn | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent morn=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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