The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 16, sentence 150
• p. 16: Added opening single quotation mark before phrase “Ever at Uladh’s feasts the clansmen say,” change internal opening single quotation mark in this stanza to double quotation mark, and add closing double quotation mark to end of stanza.
Who acts: Uladh, clansmen, • · What happens: add, open, feast, say, change, close · To what, where: •, single quotation mark, internal double quotation mark, stanza, double quotation mark, end · 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 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Uladh, clansmen, •), 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 | • | • | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 change | nsubj |
| 2 | p. | P. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 • | flat |
| 3 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 • | appos |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 Added | punct |
| 5 | Added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 • | acl |
| 6 | opening | open | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 Added | advcl |
| 7 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mark | amod |
| 8 | quotation | quotation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mark | compound |
| 9 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 opening | obj |
| 10 | before | before | ADP | _ | 11 phrase | case |
| 11 | phrase | phrase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 opening | obl |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 feasts | punct |
| 13 | Ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 17 feasts | advmod |
| 14 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 17 feasts | mark |
| 15 | Uladh | Uladh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 feasts | nsubj |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 Uladh | case |
| 17 | feasts | feast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 opening | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 clansmen | det |
| 19 | clansmen | clansman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 say | nsubj |
| 20 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 feasts | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 say | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 feasts | punct |
| 23 | change | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | internal | internal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 mark | amod |
| 25 | opening | open | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 35 mark | csubj |
| 26 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 mark | amod |
| 27 | quotation | quotation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 mark | compound |
| 28 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 opening | obj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 stanza | case |
| 30 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 stanza | det |
| 31 | stanza | stanza | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 opening | obl |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 double | mark |
| 33 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 mark | amod |
| 34 | quotation | quotation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 mark | compound |
| 35 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 change | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 add | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 add | cc |
| 38 | add | add | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 change | conj |
| 39 | closing | close | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 38 add | xcomp |
| 40 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 mark | amod |
| 41 | quotation | quotation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 mark | compound |
| 42 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 closing | obj |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 end | case |
| 44 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 closing | obl |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 stanza | case |
| 46 | stanza | stanza | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 end | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 change | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | participle | • not said here | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | open | gerund | single quotation mark | before phrase | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | feast in a quote | present | Uladh | ever | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | the clansmen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | change | present | • | internal double quotation mark | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Patient | ||||
| 6 | open | gerund | single quotation mark | this stanza | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent mark=Theme in stanza=Location | ||||
| 7 | add speech: assert | infinitive | • not said here | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 8 | close | gerund | • not said here | double quotation mark | end of stanza | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent mark=Patient to end=Recipient |
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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