The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 4
That prince would bring Oft to his judgment court Queen Nessa’s boy Whose forward wit unravelled every suit, Delighting in the wrangling clan’s dispute.
Who acts: prince, wrangling clan · What happens: bring, unravell, delight, wrangle, dispute · To what, where: judgment court, suit, dispute
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, wrangling clan), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bring | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 bring | aux |
| 4 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | Oft | oft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bring | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 court | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 court | nmod:poss |
| 8 | judgment | judgment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 court | compound |
| 9 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bring | obl |
| 10 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 boy | nmod:poss |
| 11 | Nessa | Nessa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Queen | flat |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 Queen | case |
| 13 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 court | nmod |
| 14 | Whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 17 unravelled | nmod:poss |
| 15 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 17 unravelled | advmod |
| 16 | wit | wit | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 unravelled | advmod |
| 17 | unravelled | unravell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 boy | acl:relcl |
| 18 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 suit | det |
| 19 | suit | suit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 unravelled | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Delighting | punct |
| 21 | Delighting | delight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 bring | advcl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 dispute | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 clan | det |
| 24 | wrangling | wrangle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 clan | amod |
| 25 | clan | clan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 dispute | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 clan | case |
| 27 | dispute | dispute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Delighting | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | would | that prince | prince's judgment court Queen's boy | oft property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to court=Destination | |||
| 2 | unravell | participle | every suit | Queen's boy nmod:poss; forward, wit property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | delight | gerund | that prince not said here | the wrangling clan's dispute | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | wrangle | gerund | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | dispute | the wrangling clan | nom dispute «communication intransitive»: 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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