The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 286
What better lot For him than this;--the bandits chased, to die Beside his master’s gate?’
What happens: chase, die · To what, where: gate
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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 chased | nsubj:outer |
| 2 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 lot | amod |
| 3 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 4 | For | for | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lot | nmod |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 this | case |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 What | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 chased | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bandits | det |
| 11 | bandits | bandit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 chased | nsubj |
| 12 | chased | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 die | punct |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 die | mark |
| 15 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 chased | ccomp |
| 16 | Beside | beside | ADP | _ | 20 gate | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 master | nmod:poss |
| 18 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gate | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 master | case |
| 20 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 die | obl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 die | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 die | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chase | past | What better lot for lot than this nsubj:outer; the bandits nsubj | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | die | to-infinitive | lot's master's gate | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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