The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 30
‘Buini I saw, the Ruthless Red; full strong He towered, and stately as a summer tree: But, when that strife dishonest did us wrong, No help he proved, O Love, to thine and thee!
Who acts: Buini, strife · What happens: see, tower, do, prove · To what, where: us, help
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 (Buini, strife), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 2 | Buini | Buini | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 tree | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Red | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Red | det |
| 7 | Ruthless | Ruthless | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Red | compound |
| 8 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | vocative |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 10 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 strong | amod |
| 11 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 saw | conj |
| 12 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 towered | nsubj |
| 13 | towered | tower | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 strong | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 tree | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 tree | cc |
| 16 | stately | stately | ADV | _ | 20 tree | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 tree | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 tree | det |
| 19 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tree | compound |
| 20 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 dishonest | punct |
| 22 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 dishonest | cc |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 dishonest | punct |
| 24 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 dishonest | advmod |
| 25 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 strife | det |
| 26 | strife | strife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 dishonest | nsubj |
| 27 | dishonest | dishonest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 tree | parataxis |
| 28 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 dishonest | conj |
| 29 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 did | obj |
| 30 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 dishonest | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 help | punct |
| 32 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 33 help | det |
| 33 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 dishonest | obl |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 proved | nsubj |
| 35 | proved | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 help | acl:relcl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 Love | punct |
| 37 | O | O | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Love | compound |
| 38 | Love | Love | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 dishonest | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 thee | punct |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 thee | case |
| 41 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 43 thee | nmod:poss |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 thee | cc |
| 43 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 27 dishonest | conj |
| 44 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 20 tree | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Buini | the Ruthless Red vocative; I nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | tower | past | Buini | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | do | past | us | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | prove | past | strife | no help not said here | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent help=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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