The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 70
Then to the flash from Deirdré’s peerless eyes Her nurse made answer; ‘Naisi! who is he?
Who acts: nurse, Naisi · What happens: make, be · To what, where: answer, Naisi
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 (nurse, Naisi), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 flash | advmod |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 flash | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 flash | det |
| 4 | flash | flash | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 eyes | case |
| 6 | Deirdré | Deirdré | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Deirdré | case |
| 8 | peerless | peerless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 eyes | amod |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 flash | nmod |
| 10 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 nurse | nmod:poss |
| 11 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 eyes | nmod |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 nurse | acl |
| 13 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 Naisi | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 Naisi | punct |
| 16 | Naisi | Naisi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 flash | appos |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 Naisi | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 he | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 he | cop |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 Naisi | flat |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 flash | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | participle | eye's nurse not said here | answer | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset answer=Product | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Naisi | Naisi | 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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