The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 21
Yet once again, King Conor rose and said, ‘My mind is other-minded, Lords, than yours; For I, though ne’er by random counsel swayed, Far less by murmurs low of kernes and boors, Find this amiss--that Usnach’s sons this day For one bad woman’s sake are far away;
Who acts: King, mind, ne’er, sons, My · What happens: rise, say, be, sway, find, mind · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, mind, ne’er, sons), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 7 rose | cc |
| 2 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 again | advmod |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 rose | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 again | punct |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 rose | nsubj |
| 6 | Conor | Conor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 King | flat |
| 7 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 rose | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 minded | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 minded | punct |
| 12 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 mind | nmod:poss |
| 13 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 minded | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 minded | cop |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 minded | amod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 other | punct |
| 17 | minded | minded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Lords | punct |
| 19 | Lords | lord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 minded | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 yours | punct |
| 21 | than | than | ADP | _ | 22 yours | case |
| 22 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 minded | conj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 rose | punct |
| 24 | For | for | ADP | _ | 25 I | case |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 rose | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 swayed | punct |
| 27 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 32 swayed | mark |
| 28 | ne’er | ne'er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 swayed | nsubj |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 counsel | case |
| 30 | random | random | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 counsel | amod |
| 31 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 ne’er | nmod |
| 32 | swayed | sway | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 rose | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 less | punct |
| 34 | Far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 35 less | advmod |
| 35 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 32 swayed | conj |
| 36 | by | by | ADP | _ | 37 murmurs | case |
| 37 | murmurs | murmur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 less | obl |
| 38 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 murmurs | amod |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 kernes | case |
| 40 | kernes | kerne | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 low | obl |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 boors | cc |
| 42 | boors | boor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 kernes | conj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 Find | punct |
| 44 | Find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 swayed | conj |
| 45 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 46 amiss | nsubj |
| 46 | amiss | amiss | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 Find | ccomp |
| 47 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 62 away | punct |
| 48 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 62 away | mark |
| 49 | Usnach | Usnach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 sons | nmod:poss |
| 50 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 49 Usnach | case |
| 51 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 62 away | nsubj |
| 52 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 53 day | det |
| 53 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 sons | nmod:unmarked |
| 54 | For | for | ADP | _ | 59 sake | case |
| 55 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 57 woman | nummod |
| 56 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 57 woman | amod |
| 57 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 sake | nmod:poss |
| 58 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 57 woman | case |
| 59 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 sons | nmod |
| 60 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 62 away | cop |
| 61 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 62 away | advmod |
| 62 | away | away | ADV | _ | 44 Find | advmod |
| 63 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | King | again | for I | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | King not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | My mind | Lords obl; yours conj; minded property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sway | past | ne’er by random counsel | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | find | infinitive | ne’er by random counsel not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is | present | Usnach's sons this day for one bad woman's sake | away, far property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | mind | My | nom mind «cognition 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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