The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 90
King Conor heard, and in his angry mood Had risen to speak her doom; ‘That child shall die!’
Who acts: King, child, death · What happens: hear, rise, speak, die, doom · To what, where: angry mood, doom · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (King, child, death), 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 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | Conor | Conor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 King | flat |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 risen | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 risen | cc |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 mood | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 mood | nmod:poss |
| 8 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mood | amod |
| 9 | mood | mood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 risen | obl |
| 10 | Had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 risen | aux |
| 11 | risen | rise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 heard | ccomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 speak | mark |
| 13 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 risen | xcomp |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 doom | nmod:poss |
| 15 | doom | doom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 speak | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 die | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 die | punct |
| 18 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 child | det |
| 19 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 die | nsubj |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 die | aux |
| 21 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 heard | ccomp |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 21 die | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 die | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | King | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | rise | past · perfect | Eman's angry mood | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | to-infinitive | death's doom | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | die | shall | that child | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | doom | death | nom doom «event 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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