The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 16, sentence 86

‘They met a young man of good family whose name was Aibhric, and his attention was often attracted to the birds, and their singing was sweet to him, so that he came to love them greatly, and that they loved him; and it was this young man that afterwards arranged in order and narrated all their adventures.’--_The Fate of the Children of Lir_, prose version by Professor O’Curry.

Who acts: Fail, name, singing, Aibhric, men · What happens: meet, be, attract, come, love, arrange · To what, where: young man, Aibhric, attention, Fail, order, adventures

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 (Fail, name, singing, Aibhric), 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 met	punct
2	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 met	nsubj
3	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 met	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 family	case
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 family	amod
9	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 man	nmod
10	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	11 name	nmod:poss
11	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Aibhric	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 Aibhric	cop
13	Aibhric	Aibhric	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 family	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 attracted	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 attracted	cc
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 attention	nmod:poss
17	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 attracted	nsubj:pass
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 attracted	aux:pass
19	often	often	ADV	_	20 attracted	advmod
20	attracted	attract	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 met	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 birds	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 birds	det
23	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 attracted	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sweet	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 sweet	cc
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 singing	nmod:poss
27	singing	singing	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sweet	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 sweet	cop
29	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 met	parataxis
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 sweet	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 came	punct
33	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	36 came	mark
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 so	fixed
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 came	nsubj
36	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 sweet	conj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 love	mark
38	love	love	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 came	xcomp
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 love	obj
40	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	38 love	advmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 loved	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 loved	cc
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 loved	mark
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 loved	nsubj
45	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 came	conj
46	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 loved	obj
47	;	;	PUNCT	_	53 man	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 man	cc
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 man	nsubj
50	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 man	cop
51	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	53 man	det
52	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 man	amod
53	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 met	obl
54	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	56 arranged	nsubj:pass
55	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	56 arranged	advmod
56	arranged	arrange	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	53 man	acl:relcl
57	in	in	ADP	_	58 order	case
58	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 arranged	obl
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 narrated	cc
60	narrated	narrate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	56 arranged	conj
61	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	63 adventures	det:predet
62	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	63 adventures	nmod:poss
63	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	60 narrated	obj
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	56 arranged	punct
65	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 met	punct
66	--	--	PUNCT	_	69 Fate	punct
67	_	_	PUNCT	_	69 Fate	punct
68	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	69 Fate	det
69	Fate	Fate	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 met	obl
70	of	of	ADP	_	72 Children	case
71	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	72 Children	det
72	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	69 Fate	nmod
73	of	of	ADP	_	74 Lir	case
74	Lir	Lir	PROPN	Number=Sing	72 Children	nmod
75	_	_	PUNCT	_	3 met	punct
76	,	,	PUNCT	_	77 prose	punct
77	prose	prose	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 met	parataxis
78	version	version	NOUN	Number=Sing	77 prose	obj
79	by	by	ADP	_	81 O’Curry	case
80	Professor	Professor	PROPN	Number=Sing	81 O’Curry	nmod:desc
81	O’Curry	O'Curry	PROPN	Number=Sing	77 prose	obl
82	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	meet	past	Fail	a young man of good family			the Fate of the Children of Lir obl	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent
2	is a	past	Aibhric's name	Aibhric				tree rules
3	attract	past · passive		Aibhric's attention			to the birds result; often property	vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to bird=Result
4	is	past	Fail's singing		Aibhric		sweet property	tree rules
5	come	past	Aibhric					tree rules
6	love	to-infinitive	Aibhric not said here	Fail			greatly property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
7	love	past	Fail	Aibhric				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
8	is a	past	singing	this young man				tree rules
9	arrange	participle · passive		this young man		order	afterwards property	vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in order=Destination
10	narrate speech: other	participle		men's adventures				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Topic
11	prose	infinitive		version			by O’Curry Professor	tree rules
12	name		Aibhric					nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent
13	attend		Aibhric					nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent
14	sing		Fail					nom singing «act transitive»: poss=agent
15	adventure		men = man					nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent

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 86