The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 27
Then Conor unto Conal signed; and these Stood speaking in a casement far apart: ‘Conal, if I should send thee o’er the seas, And lo! on Uladh’s soil, through Naisi’s heart The Fates sent darkness, what would happen then?’
Who acts: Conor, these, I, Fates, darkness, Uladh · What happens: sign, stand, speak, send, happen, soil · To what, where: soil, Conal, casement, thee, darkness, heart · 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 (Conor, these, I, Fates), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 signed | advmod |
| 2 | Conor | Conor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 signed | nsubj |
| 3 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 4 Conal | case |
| 4 | Conal | Conal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Conor | nmod |
| 5 | signed | sign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 Stood | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Stood | cc |
| 8 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 Stood | nsubj |
| 9 | Stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 signed | conj |
| 10 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 Stood | xcomp |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 casement | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 casement | det |
| 13 | casement | casement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 speaking | obl |
| 14 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 apart | advmod |
| 15 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 10 speaking | advmod |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 Conal | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 Conal | punct |
| 18 | Conal | Conal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Stood | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 send | punct |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 send | mark |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 send | nsubj |
| 22 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 send | aux |
| 23 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 Stood | conj |
| 24 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 send | obj |
| 25 | o’er | o'er | ADP | _ | 27 seas | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 seas | det |
| 27 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 send | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 soil | punct |
| 29 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 soil | cc |
| 30 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 35 soil | discourse |
| 31 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 30 lo | punct |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 soil | case |
| 33 | Uladh | Uladh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 soil | nmod:poss |
| 34 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 33 Uladh | case |
| 35 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 signed | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 sent | punct |
| 37 | through | through | ADP | _ | 40 heart | case |
| 38 | Naisi | Naisi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 heart | nmod:poss |
| 39 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 38 Naisi | case |
| 40 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 sent | obl |
| 41 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 Fates | det |
| 42 | Fates | fate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 sent | nsubj |
| 43 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 signed | conj |
| 44 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 sent | obj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 happen | punct |
| 46 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 48 happen | nsubj |
| 47 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 48 happen | aux |
| 48 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 darkness | acl:relcl |
| 49 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 48 happen | advmod |
| 50 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 43 sent | punct |
| 51 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 43 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sign | past | Conor unto Conal | Uladh's soil | then | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent on soil=Destination | |||
| 2 | stand | past | these | Conal | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | gerund | these not said here | a casement | apart property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | send a condition, not said to happen | should | I | thee | o'er the seas | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | |||
| 5 | send | past | the Fates | darkness | Naisi's heart | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent darkness=Theme | |||
| 6 | happen | would | darkness | then | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | soil | Uladh | nom soil «state 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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