The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 89
A red spot stood on Fergus’ crownless brow; The Three looked up; and spake: ‘We go, and now!’
Who acts: red spot, Three, We · What happens: stand, look up, go · To what, where: Fergus
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 (red spot, Three, We), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 spot | det |
| 2 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 spot | amod |
| 3 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 Fergus | case |
| 6 | Fergus | Fergus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obl |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 brow | punct |
| 8 | crownless | crownless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 brow | amod |
| 9 | brow | brow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Fergus | appos |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 looked | punct |
| 11 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Three | det |
| 12 | Three | Three | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 looked | nsubj |
| 13 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stood | conj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 looked | compound:prt |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 spake | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 spake | cc |
| 17 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | parataxis |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 go | punct |
| 19 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 go | punct |
| 20 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 go | nsubj |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 stood | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 now | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 now | cc |
| 24 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 stood | advmod |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a red spot | Fergus | now | spake parataxis | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on fergus=Location | ||
| 2 | look up | past | the Three | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | go | present | We | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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