The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 7
His crowned compeer, Fergus arose; incensed he made reply; ‘Throne him your king, if worthier he than I!’
Who acts: crowned compeer, Fergus · What happens: crown, arise, incense, reply, throne · To what, where: judgment
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 (crowned compeer, Fergus), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 compeer | nmod:poss |
| 2 | crowned | crown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 compeer | amod |
| 3 | compeer | compeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 arose | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 compeer | punct |
| 5 | Fergus | Fergus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 arose | nsubj |
| 6 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 incensed | punct |
| 8 | incensed | incense | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 arose | xcomp |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 reply | nsubj |
| 10 | made | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 reply | aux |
| 11 | reply | reply | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 incensed | ccomp |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 Throne | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 Throne | punct |
| 14 | Throne | throne | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 arose | advcl |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 Throne | obj |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 king | nmod:poss |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Throne | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 worthier | punct |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 worthier | mark |
| 20 | worthier | worthy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 arose | parataxis |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 worthier | obl |
| 22 | than | than | ADP | _ | 23 I | case |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 he | conj |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 20 worthier | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crown | participle | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | arise | past | judgment's crowned compeer | Fergus nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | incense | participle | judgment's crowned compeer not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | reply speech: assert | may | Fergus | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | throne | infinitive | judgment's crowned compeer not said here | judgment | your king obj | 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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