The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 16, sentence 66
_Deirdré and he were playing chess together_: Chess was a favourite game with the Irish, and is frequently alluded to in the earliest tales.
Who acts: Deirdré, Chess · What happens: play, be, allude · To what, where: chess, favourite game, Deirdré
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 (Deirdré, Chess), 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 | _ | 2 Deirdré | punct |
| 2 | Deirdré | Deirdré | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 playing | cc |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 playing | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 playing | aux |
| 6 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 Deirdré | conj |
| 7 | chess | chess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 playing | obj |
| 8 | together | together | ADV | _ | 6 playing | advmod |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 playing | punct |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 game | punct |
| 11 | Chess | Chess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 game | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 game | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 game | det |
| 14 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 game | amod |
| 15 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Deirdré | appos |
| 16 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 18 Irish | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Irish | det |
| 18 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 game | acl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 alluded | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 alluded | cc |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 alluded | aux:pass |
| 22 | frequently | frequently | ADV | _ | 23 alluded | advmod |
| 23 | alluded | allude | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 Irish | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 tales | case |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 tales | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 tales | det |
| 27 | earliest | early | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 tales | amod |
| 28 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 alluded | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Deirdré | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past · progressive | Deirdré | chess | together property | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chess=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | past | Chess | a favourite game | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | allude | present · passive | Chess not said here | to the earliest tales; frequently property | tree rules |
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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