The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 16, sentence 119
_ ‘Take off his armour that I may see the Brooch for the sake of which he undertook the combat.
Who acts: you, I, Esq · What happens: take off, see, undertake · To what, where: armour, combat
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, Esq), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 Take | punct |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Take | punct |
| 3 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 Take | compound:prt |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 armour | nmod:poss |
| 6 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Take | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 see | obj |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 see | nsubj |
| 9 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 see | aux |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 armour | acl:relcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Brooch | det |
| 12 | Brooch | Brooch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 see | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 sake | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sake | det |
| 15 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 see | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 undertook | obl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 undertook | nsubj |
| 19 | undertook | undertake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 sake | acl:relcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 combat | det |
| 21 | combat | combat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 undertook | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take off | imperative | you not said here | Esq's armour | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent armour=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | may | I | Esq's armour | for the sake; the Brooch obj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | undertake | past | Esq | the combat | of the sake | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent combat=Eventuality |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/16/119/