The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 9
Conor was loved and feared: one clan alone Nor feared, nor loved him, Usnach’s: and the king In Usnach’s house a rival to his throne Or noting, or belike imagining, Still watched that house to crush it, had he dared; But Uladh loved it, and her monarch spared.
Who acts: one clan, Still, house, Conor, Uladh, monarch · What happens: love, fear, note, watch, crush, have · To what, where: Conor, king, belike imagining, house
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 (one clan, Still, house, Conor), 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 | Conor | Conor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 loved | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 loved | aux:pass |
| 3 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 feared | cc |
| 5 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 loved | conj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 feared | punct |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 clan | nummod |
| 8 | clan | clan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 feared | nsubj |
| 9 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 8 clan | advmod |
| 10 | Nor | Nor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 feared | nsubj |
| 11 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 feared | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 loved | punct |
| 13 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 14 loved | cc |
| 14 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 feared | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 loved | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 king | punct |
| 17 | Usnach | Usnach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 king | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 Usnach | case |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 king | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 king | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 king | det |
| 22 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 feared | obl |
| 23 | In | in | ADP | _ | 26 house | case |
| 24 | Usnach | Usnach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 house | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 Usnach | case |
| 26 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 king | nmod |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 rival | det |
| 28 | rival | rival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 house | nmod |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 throne | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 throne | nmod:poss |
| 31 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 rival | nmod |
| 32 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 33 noting | cc |
| 33 | noting | note | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 throne | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 imagining | punct |
| 35 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 37 imagining | cc |
| 36 | belike | belike | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 imagining | amod |
| 37 | imagining | imagining | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 noting | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 watched | punct |
| 39 | Still | Still | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 watched | nsubj |
| 40 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 imagining | acl:relcl |
| 41 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 42 house | det |
| 42 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 watched | obj |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 crush | mark |
| 44 | crush | crush | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 watched | xcomp |
| 45 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 crush | obj |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 had | punct |
| 47 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 watched | conj |
| 48 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 dared | nsubj |
| 49 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 had | ccomp |
| 50 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 53 loved | punct |
| 51 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 53 loved | cc |
| 52 | Uladh | Uladh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 53 loved | nsubj |
| 53 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 watched | parataxis |
| 54 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 53 loved | obj |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 59 spared | punct |
| 56 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 59 spared | cc |
| 57 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 58 monarch | nmod:poss |
| 58 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 spared | nsubj |
| 59 | spared | spare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 53 loved | conj |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 loved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past · passive | Conor | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | fear | past | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | fear | past | one clan | Usnach's king in Usnach's house a rival to Conor's throne | Nor nsubj | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | love | past | one clan not said here | Conor | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | note | gerund | one clan not said here | belike imagining | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent imagining=Topic | ||||
| 6 | watch | past | Still | that house | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | crush | to-infinitive | that house not said here | house | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 8 | have | past | Still not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | dare | past | Conor | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 10 | love | past | Uladh | house | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 11 | spare | past | Uladh's monarch | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=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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