The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 6
It is significant that while the sentenced belong to the earlier Tuatha de Dannan race, the witch, while imprecating upon them the curse, addresses them thus:--‘Ye of the white faces, of the stammering _Gael_.’
Who acts: function, white faces · What happens: be, sentence, belong, imprecate, address, stammer · To what, where: curse, race, Gael
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (function, white faces), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 significant | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 significant | cop |
| 3 | significant | significant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 belong | mark |
| 5 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 8 belong | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 belong | dep |
| 7 | sentenced | sentence | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 the | acl |
| 8 | belong | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 significant | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 race | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 race | det |
| 11 | earlier | early | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 race | amod |
| 12 | Tuatha | Tuatha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 race | compound |
| 13 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Tuatha | flat |
| 14 | Dannan | Dannan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 race | compound |
| 15 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 belong | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 witch | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 witch | det |
| 18 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 race | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 imprecating | punct |
| 20 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 21 imprecating | mark |
| 21 | imprecating | imprecate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 significant | advcl |
| 22 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 23 them | case |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 imprecating | obl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 curse | det |
| 25 | curse | curse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 imprecating | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 addresses | punct |
| 27 | addresses | address | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 significant | conj |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 addresses | obj |
| 29 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 27 addresses | advmod |
| 30 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 37 faces | punct |
| 31 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 37 faces | punct |
| 32 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 37 faces | punct |
| 33 | Ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 37 faces | nsubj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 faces | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 faces | det |
| 36 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 faces | amod |
| 37 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 significant | parataxis |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 stammering | punct |
| 39 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 41 stammering | mark |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 stammering | det |
| 41 | stammering | stammer | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 37 faces | acl |
| 42 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 43 Gael | punct |
| 43 | Gael | Gael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 stammering | obj |
| 44 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 43 Gael | punct |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 significant | punct |
| 46 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 significant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | function | the white faces Ye parataxis; significant property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sentence | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | belong | present | function not said here | to the earlier Tuatha Dannan race and the witch | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | imprecate | gerund | function not said here | the curse | upon race | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curse=Theme | |||
| 5 | address | present | function not said here | race | thus property | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination | |||
| 6 | stammer speech: other | gerund | the white faces Ye not said here | Gael | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gael=Topic |
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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