The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 90
Many a mirthful chance Provoked their laughter: loudest laughed the queen; But when she spake she waited not reply.
Who acts: Many, loudest, chance · What happens: provoke, laugh, speak, not wait, reply · To what, where: laughter, queen · 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 (Many, loudest, chance), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Provoked | nsubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 chance | det |
| 3 | mirthful | mirthful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 chance | amod |
| 4 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Provoked | nsubj |
| 5 | Provoked | provoke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 laughter | nmod:poss |
| 7 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Provoked | obj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 laughed | punct |
| 9 | loudest | loud | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 laughed | nsubj |
| 10 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Provoked | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 queen | det |
| 12 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 laughed | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 spake | punct |
| 14 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 spake | cc |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 spake | advmod |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 spake | nsubj |
| 17 | spake | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 laughed | conj |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 waited | nsubj |
| 19 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 spake | ccomp |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 waited | advmod |
| 21 | reply | reply | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 waited | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Provoked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | provoke | past | Many | warriors's laughter | a mirthful chance nsubj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus laughter=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | laugh | past | loudest | the queen | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Theme | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past | chance | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not wait | past | chance | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | reply speech: assert | infinitive | chance not said here | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=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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