The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 39
Plainly Fergus spake: Not otherwise than plainly could he speak, A man to Truth predestined; since his birth By courage sealed to Truth.
Who acts: spake, man · What happens: not speak, predestine, seal · To what, where: courage, Truth, Fergus spake · 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 (spake, man), 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 | Plainly | plainly | ADV | _ | 3 spake | advmod |
| 2 | Fergus | Fergus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 spake | compound |
| 3 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 speak | punct |
| 5 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 speak | advmod |
| 6 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 8 plainly | advmod |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 6 otherwise | fixed |
| 8 | plainly | plainly | ADV | _ | 11 speak | advmod |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 speak | aux |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 speak | nsubj |
| 11 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 spake | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 predestined | punct |
| 13 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 predestined | nsubj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Truth | case |
| 16 | Truth | Truth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 man | nmod |
| 17 | predestined | predestine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 speak | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 speak | punct |
| 19 | since | since | ADP | _ | 21 birth | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 birth | nmod:poss |
| 21 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ; | obl |
| 22 | By | by | ADP | _ | 23 courage | case |
| 23 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 birth | nmod |
| 24 | sealed | seal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 courage | acl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 Truth | case |
| 26 | Truth | Truth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 sealed | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not speak speech: other | could | spake = speak | man's birth by courage obl; plainly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | predestine | past | a man to Truth | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | seal | participle | courage not said here | Truth | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to truth=Co-Patient |
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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