The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 16, sentence 3
Fulfilled were all these pledges save the last; For Meave upon that fatal day, while hung Doubtful the battle-scales, had given command To lead the Donn to Cruachan.
Who acts: Fulfilled pledges · What happens: fulfil, be, save, hang, give, lead · To what, where: Fulfilled pledges, last, Doubtful, command, Donn, Cruachan
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 (Fulfilled pledges), 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 | Fulfilled | fulfil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 pledges | amod |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pledges | cop |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 pledges | det:predet |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 pledges | det |
| 5 | pledges | pledge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 save | nsubj |
| 6 | save | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 last | det |
| 8 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 save | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 Meave | punct |
| 10 | For | for | ADP | _ | 11 Meave | case |
| 11 | Meave | Meave | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 save | obl |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 day | case |
| 13 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 day | det |
| 14 | fatal | fatal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 day | amod |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 save | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 hung | punct |
| 17 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 18 hung | mark |
| 18 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 save | parataxis |
| 19 | Doubtful | Doubtful | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 hung | obj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 scales | det |
| 21 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 scales | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 battle | punct |
| 23 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 hung | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 given | punct |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 given | aux |
| 26 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 hung | conj |
| 27 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 given | obj |
| 28 | To | to | PART | _ | 29 lead | mark |
| 29 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 given | advcl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Donn | det |
| 31 | Donn | Donn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 lead | obj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 Cruachan | case |
| 33 | Cruachan | Cruachan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 lead | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 save | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fulfil | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | all Fulfilled pledges | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | save | present | all Fulfilled pledges | the last | day | for Meave | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent last=Theme for meave=Beneficiary | ||
| 4 | hang | past | Doubtful | the battle scales obj | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent doubtful=Patient scale=Result | ||||
| 5 | give | past · perfect | command | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent command=Theme | |||||
| 6 | lead | to-infinitive | the Donn | Cruachan | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent donn=Theme to cruachan=Destination |
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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