The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 16, sentence 59

Sometimes they were self-imposed: thus Fergus Mac Roy and Cuchullain also, had bound themselves in youth never to refuse an invitation to the feast of a good man, however humble.

What happens: impose, bind, not refuse · To what, where: characters, Fergus, youth, invitation

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: 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	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 imposed	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 imposed	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 imposed	aux:pass
4	self	self	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 imposed	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 self	punct
6	imposed	impose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 bound	punct
8	thus	thus	ADV	_	17 bound	advmod
9	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 bound	nsubj:pass
10	Mac	Mac	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Fergus	flat
11	Roy	Roy	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Fergus	flat
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 Cuchullain	cc
13	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Fergus	conj
14	also	also	ADV	_	17 bound	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 also	punct
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 bound	aux
17	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 imposed	parataxis
18	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 bound	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 youth	case
20	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bound	obl
21	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	23 refuse	advmod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 refuse	mark
23	refuse	refuse	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	17 bound	parataxis
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 invitation	det
25	invitation	invitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 refuse	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 feast	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 feast	det
28	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 refuse	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 man	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 man	det
31	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 man	amod
32	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 feast	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 humble	punct
34	however	however	ADV	_	35 humble	advmod
35	humble	humble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 imposed	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 imposed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	impose	past · passive	characters = character		self compound; sometimes property	vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	bind	past · perfect · passive	Fergus and Cuchullain	youth	characters = character obj; thus property	tree rules
3	not refuse	to-infinitive	a invitation		to the feast of a good man	vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent invitation=Theme

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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🌲 The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 16, sentence 59

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The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 16, sentence 59