The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 12
Low-toned he spake; but Naisi heard, and thus Made answer, reddening like a rising moon, ‘We scorn their aid!
Who acts: Naisi, We · What happens: tone, hear, make, redden, rise, scorn · To what, where: Low toned spake, aid
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Naisi, 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 | Low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 spake | amod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Low | punct |
| 3 | toned | tone | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 spake | amod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 spake | nsubj |
| 5 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 heard | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 heard | cc |
| 8 | Naisi | Naisi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 heard | nsubj |
| 9 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 spake | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 answer | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 answer | cc |
| 12 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 13 Made | advmod |
| 13 | Made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 answer | amod |
| 14 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heard | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 reddening | punct |
| 16 | reddening | redden | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 heard | conj |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 moon | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 moon | det |
| 19 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 moon | amod |
| 20 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 reddening | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 scorn | punct |
| 22 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 scorn | punct |
| 23 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 scorn | nsubj |
| 24 | scorn | scorn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 reddening | parataxis |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 aid | nmod:poss |
| 26 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 scorn | obj |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 spake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tone | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | hear | past | Naisi | Low toned spake Fergus not said here | Made answer conj | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer speak=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | make | participle | thus property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 4 | redden | gerund | Naisi not said here | like a rising moon | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | rise | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | scorn | present | We | sons's aid | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aid=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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