The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 25
‘Likewise thus vowed he, ne’er to tread again Green Erin’s soil, his glory and his joy, Till Conal Carnach fetched him o’er the main, Or else Cuchullain, or the son of Roy, Fergus, my dearest.
Who acts: Conal, Green Erin, ne’er · What happens: vow, tread, fetch, soil, glory, joy · To what, where: guarantee, soil
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 (Conal, Green Erin, ne’er), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 vowed | punct |
| 2 | Likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 4 vowed | advmod |
| 3 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 4 vowed | advmod |
| 4 | vowed | vow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 vowed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ne’er | punct |
| 7 | ne’er | ne'er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 vowed | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 tread | mark |
| 9 | tread | tread | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 ne’er | acl |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 tread | advmod |
| 11 | Green | Green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Erin | amod |
| 12 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 soil | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 Erin | case |
| 14 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tread | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 glory | punct |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 glory | nmod:poss |
| 17 | glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 soil | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 joy | cc |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 joy | nmod:poss |
| 20 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 soil | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 fetched | punct |
| 22 | Till | till | SCONJ | _ | 25 fetched | mark |
| 23 | Conal | Conal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 fetched | nsubj |
| 24 | Carnach | Carnach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Conal | flat |
| 25 | fetched | fetch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 vowed | conj |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 fetched | obj |
| 27 | o’er | o'er | ADP | _ | 29 main | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 main | det |
| 29 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 fetched | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 Cuchullain | punct |
| 31 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 33 Cuchullain | cc |
| 32 | else | else | ADV | _ | 33 Cuchullain | advmod |
| 33 | Cuchullain | Cuchullain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 vowed | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 son | punct |
| 35 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 37 son | cc |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 son | det |
| 37 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 Cuchullain | appos |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 Roy | case |
| 39 | Roy | Roy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 son | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 Fergus | punct |
| 41 | Fergus | Fergus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Cuchullain | conj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 dearest | punct |
| 43 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 dearest | nmod:poss |
| 44 | dearest | dear | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 33 Cuchullain | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 vowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vow | past | guarantee | ne’er obl; Cuchullain and Fergus obl; likewise, thus property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tread | to-infinitive | Green Erin's soil and ne’er's glory and ne’er's joy | again | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location soil=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fetch | past | Conal | guarantee | o'er the main | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 4 | soil | Green Erin | nom soil «state transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | glory | ne’er = ne'er | nom glory «state intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | joy | ne’er = ne'er | nom joy «feeling 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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