The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 67
The Pict replied Well pleased, albeit at Naisi’s name aghast, ‘To slay that chief were hard; to snare his bride Were sweet.
Who acts: Pict, chief, bride, Naisi · What happens: reply, slay, be, snare, name
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 (Pict, chief, bride, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Pict | det |
| 2 | Pict | Pict | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 pleased | advmod |
| 5 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 replied | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 aghast | punct |
| 7 | albeit | albeit | SCONJ | _ | 12 aghast | mark |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 name | case |
| 9 | Naisi | Naisi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 name | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 Naisi | case |
| 11 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 aghast | obl |
| 12 | aghast | aghast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 replied | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 slay | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 slay | punct |
| 15 | To | to | PART | _ | 16 slay | mark |
| 16 | slay | slay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 aghast | parataxis |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 hard | mark |
| 18 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hard | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 hard | cop |
| 20 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 slay | advcl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 snare | punct |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 snare | mark |
| 23 | snare | snare | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 slay | conj |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 bride | nmod:poss |
| 25 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 sweet | nsubj |
| 26 | Were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 sweet | cop |
| 27 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 snare | ccomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the Pict | pleased property | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | slay | to-infinitive | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | chief | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | snare | to-infinitive | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is | past | Pict's bride | sweet property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | name | Naisi | nom name «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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