The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 33
Next, to Cuchullain Conor signed; then spake; ‘Cuchullain! if I sent thee o’er the sea, With Usnach’s exiled sons a pact to make, And then, despite thy surety given, those Three Vanished, late-landed; what would happen then?’
Who acts: Cuchullain, I, Usnach ’s, Three · What happens: sign, speak, send, exile, make, give · To what, where: Cuchullain, thee, sons, surety · 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 (Cuchullain, I, Usnach ’s, Three), 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 | Next | next | ADV | _ | 6 signed | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Next | punct |
| 3 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 6 signed | mark |
| 4 | Cuchullain | Cuchullain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 signed | nsubj |
| 5 | Conor | Conor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Cuchullain | flat |
| 6 | signed | sign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 spake | punct |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 spake | advmod |
| 9 | spake | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 signed | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 Cuchullain | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 Cuchullain | punct |
| 12 | Cuchullain | Cuchullain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 spake | obj |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 Cuchullain | punct |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 sent | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 sent | nsubj |
| 16 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 spake | advcl |
| 17 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 sent | obj |
| 18 | o’er | o'er | ADP | _ | 20 sea | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sea | det |
| 20 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sent | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 exiled | punct |
| 22 | With | with | SCONJ | _ | 25 exiled | mark |
| 23 | Usnach | Usnach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 ’s | compound |
| 24 | ’s | ' | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 exiled | nsubj |
| 25 | exiled | exile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 signed | conj |
| 26 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 exiled | obj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 pact | det |
| 28 | pact | pact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 exiled | obj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 make | mark |
| 30 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 exiled | advcl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 Vanished | punct |
| 32 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 Vanished | cc |
| 33 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 42 Vanished | advmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 then | punct |
| 35 | despite | despite | ADP | _ | 37 surety | case |
| 36 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 37 surety | nmod:poss |
| 37 | surety | surety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 Vanished | obl |
| 38 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 surety | acl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 surety | punct |
| 40 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 41 Three | det |
| 41 | Three | Three | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Vanished | nsubj |
| 42 | Vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 signed | conj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 landed | punct |
| 44 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 landed | compound |
| 45 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 44 late | punct |
| 46 | landed | land | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 Vanished | conj |
| 47 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 50 happen | punct |
| 48 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 50 happen | nsubj |
| 49 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 50 happen | aux |
| 50 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 signed | parataxis |
| 51 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 50 happen | advmod |
| 52 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 50 happen | punct |
| 53 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 50 happen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sign | past | Cuchullain | next property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | infinitive | Cuchullain not said here | Cuchullain | then | tree rules | |||
| 3 | send a condition, not said to happen | past | I | thee | o'er the sea | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | |||
| 4 | exile | past | Usnach ’s | sons | a pact obj | tree rules | |||
| 5 | make | to-infinitive | Usnach ’s not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 6 | give | participle | thy surety not said here | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 7 | vanish | past | that Three | then | despite thy surety | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 8 | land | participle | that Three not said here | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 9 | happen | would | then | what nsubj | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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