The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 21
Then spake to Illan, Fergus’ kindlier son, The Ruthless Red; ‘Small faith in us they place!’
Who acts: you, Small faith · What happens: speak, place · To what, where: Illan · 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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Small faith), 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 | 2 spake | advmod |
| 2 | spake | speak | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 Illan | case |
| 4 | Illan | Illan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 spake | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 son | punct |
| 6 | Fergus | Fergus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 son | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 6 Fergus | case |
| 8 | kindlier | kindly | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 son | amod |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Illan | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Ruthless | punct |
| 11 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Ruthless | det |
| 12 | Ruthless | Ruthless | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Illan | conj |
| 13 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Ruthless | flat |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 faith | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 faith | punct |
| 16 | Small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 faith | amod |
| 17 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 place | nsubj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 us | case |
| 19 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 faith | nmod |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 place | nsubj |
| 21 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spake | ccomp |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 spake | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 spake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | imperative | you not said here | Illan and the Ruthless | then | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to illan=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | place | Small faith in us | sons = son nsubj | tree rules |
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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