The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 6
Next evening, while division of the spoil is being made, Meave is ware of the advance of King Conor; and Ailill transfers the supreme command to Fergus, who prepares for the attack.
Who acts: Next evening, division, Ailill, Fergus, King Conor · What happens: make, be, transfer, prepare, advance · To what, where: division, Meave ware, supreme command, Fergus, Next evening
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 (Next evening, division, Ailill, Fergus), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 evening | amod |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
| 4 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 11 made | mark |
| 5 | division | division | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 spoil | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 spoil | det |
| 8 | spoil | spoil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 division | nmod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 made | aux:pass |
| 10 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 made | aux:pass |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 evening | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ware | punct |
| 13 | Meave | Meave | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 ware | compound |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 ware | cop |
| 15 | ware | ware | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | xcomp |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 advance | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 advance | det |
| 18 | advance | advance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ware | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Conor | case |
| 20 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Conor | compound |
| 21 | Conor | Conor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 advance | nmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 transfers | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 transfers | cc |
| 24 | Ailill | Ailill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 transfers | nsubj |
| 25 | transfers | transfer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 ware | parataxis |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 command | det |
| 27 | supreme | supreme | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 command | amod |
| 28 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 transfers | obj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 Fergus | case |
| 30 | Fergus | Fergus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 transfers | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 prepares | punct |
| 32 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 prepares | nsubj |
| 33 | prepares | prepare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 Fergus | acl:relcl |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 attack | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 attack | det |
| 36 | attack | attack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 prepares | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 evening | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · passive | Next evening not said here | division of the spoil | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | division of the spoil not said here | Meave ware | of the advance of King Conor | tree rules | |||
| 3 | transfer | present | Ailill | the supreme command | Fergus | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent command=Theme to fergus=Recipient | |||
| 4 | prepare | present | Fergus | for the attack | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for attack=Beneficiary | ||||
| 6 | advance | King Conor | nom advance «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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