The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 35
‘For, not alone who wrought that deed accursed, Slaying those Three, should perish by this hand, But they the impious deed who counselled, first; And, next the man who issued that command!’
Who acts: Cuchullain, man · What happens: accurs, slay, perish, counsell, issue · To what, where: that, Three, command
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, man), 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 | _ | 17 perish | punct |
| 2 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 7 wrought | mark |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 wrought | punct |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 wrought | advmod |
| 5 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 7 wrought | advmod |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 wrought | nsubj |
| 7 | wrought | wrought | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 perish | advcl |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 accursed | nsubj |
| 9 | deed | dee | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 accursed | aux:pass |
| 10 | accursed | accurs | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 wrought | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Slaying | punct |
| 12 | Slaying | slay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 accursed | advcl |
| 13 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 14 Three | det |
| 14 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 Slaying | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 wrought | punct |
| 16 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 perish | aux |
| 17 | perish | perish | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 hand | case |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 hand | det |
| 20 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 perish | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 counselled | punct |
| 22 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 counselled | cc |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 counselled | nsubj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 deed | det |
| 25 | impious | impious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 deed | amod |
| 26 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 counselled | nsubj |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 counselled | nsubj |
| 28 | counselled | counsell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 perish | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 first | punct |
| 30 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 28 counselled | advmod |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 man | punct |
| 32 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 man | cc |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 man | punct |
| 34 | next | next | ADP | _ | 36 man | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 man | det |
| 36 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 perish | obl |
| 37 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 issued | nsubj |
| 38 | issued | issue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 man | acl:relcl |
| 39 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 40 command | det |
| 40 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 issued | obj |
| 41 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 36 man | punct |
| 42 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 36 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accurs | past · passive | that | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | slay | gerund | that Three | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=Patient | |||||
| 3 | perish | should | by this hand; next the man | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | counsell | past | Cuchullain | the impious deed nsubj; who nsubj; first property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | issue | past | the man | that command | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location command=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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