The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 33
Fergus rose, and spake: ‘Sirs, I have heard a war this day extolled, A war this day denounced.
Who acts: Fergus, I, day · What happens: rise, hear, extol, denounce · To what, where: spake, war, day
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 (Fergus, I, day), 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 rose | nsubj |
| 2 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 spake | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 spake | cc |
| 5 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rose | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 Sirs | punct |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 Sirs | punct |
| 8 | Sirs | sir | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 spake | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 heard | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 heard | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 heard | aux |
| 12 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 Sirs | acl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 war | det |
| 14 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heard | obj |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 day | det |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heard | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | extolled | extol | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 day | acl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 war | punct |
| 19 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 war | det |
| 20 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Sirs | nmod |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 day | det |
| 22 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 denounced | nsubj |
| 23 | denounced | denounce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 war | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | Fergus | spake and Sirs a war | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hear | present · perfect | I | a war | day | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer war=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | extol | participle | this day not said here | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | denounce | past | this day | a war not said here | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=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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