The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 25
The Brothers saw, and followed fast--and I-- Ah, that for me those peerless Three should die!’
Who acts: Brothers, that · What happens: see, follow, die
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 (Brothers, that), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Brothers | det |
| 2 | Brothers | Brother | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 followed | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 followed | cc |
| 6 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 saw | xcomp |
| 7 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 followed | advmod |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 I | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 I | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | conj |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 Ah | punct |
| 12 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 3 saw | discourse |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 die | punct |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 die | nsubj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 me | case |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 that | nmod |
| 17 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 19 Three | det |
| 18 | peerless | peerless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Three | amod |
| 19 | Three | Three | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 die | nsubj |
| 20 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 die | aux |
| 21 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 saw | parataxis |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 21 die | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 die | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the Brothers | I conj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | follow | participle | the Brothers not said here | fast property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | die | should | that for me | that peerless Three nsubj | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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