The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 65
Compared with her the rest are sheep and kine-- Bid Naisi die! his consort crown as thine!’
Who acts: Breeze · What happens: compare, be, crown · To what, where: consort crown, rest sheep
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Breeze), 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 | Compared | compare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 her | case |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Compared | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sheep | det |
| 5 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sheep | compound |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sheep | cop |
| 7 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Compared | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 kine | cc |
| 9 | kine | kine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sheep | conj |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 die | punct |
| 11 | Bid | Bid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 die | compound |
| 12 | Naisi | Naisi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Bid | flat |
| 13 | die | die | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sheep | conj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Compared | punct |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 crown | nmod:poss |
| 16 | consort | consort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 crown | compound |
| 17 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Compared | obj |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 thine | case |
| 19 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 1 Compared | obl |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Compared | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Compared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compare | participle | Breeze's consort crown | with land; as thine | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent crown=Patient with she=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the rest sheep and kine and Bid die | kine conj; Bid die conj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | crown | Breeze | nom crown «communication 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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