The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 70
Then Naisi sent the twain abroad to meet him; But Deirdré said, ‘I knew that earliest cry!
Who acts: Naisi, Deirdré, I · What happens: send, meet, say, know · To what, where: twain, Naisi, earliest cry · 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 (Naisi, Deirdré, I), 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 | 3 sent | advmod |
| 2 | Naisi | Naisi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 twain | det |
| 5 | twain | twain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obj |
| 6 | abroad | abroad | ADV | _ | 3 sent | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 meet | mark |
| 8 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sent | advcl |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 meet | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 11 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 12 | Deirdré | Deirdré | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 knew | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 knew | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 knew | nsubj |
| 17 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 18 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 cry | det |
| 19 | earliest | early | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 cry | amod |
| 20 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 knew | obj |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | Naisi | the twain | then | abroad property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twain=Theme | ||
| 2 | meet | to-infinitive | Naisi not said here | Naisi | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Deirdré | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | know | past | I | that earliest cry | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer cry=Stimulus |
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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