The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 35

‘Or house with Conal Carnach, leal and true: He to the court ere noon with us will ride-- Naisi! when on that causeway I and you That evening sang, what prayer hadst thou denied?’

Who acts: house, us, I · What happens: ere, ride, sing, deny · To what, where: Naisi, causeway

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 (house, us, I), 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	_	3 house	punct
2	Or	or	CCONJ	_	3 house	cc
3	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 leal	nsubj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 Conal	case
5	Conal	Conal	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 house	nmod
6	Carnach	Carnach	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Conal	flat
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 leal	punct
8	leal	leal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 true	cc
10	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 leal	conj
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 ere	punct
12	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 ere	nsubj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 court	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 court	det
15	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 He	nmod
16	ere	ere	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 leal	conj
17	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ere	obj
18	with	with	SCONJ	_	21 ride	mark
19	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 ride	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 ride	aux
21	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 ere	advcl
22	--	--	PUNCT	_	23 Naisi	punct
23	Naisi	Naisi	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 ride	obj
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	23 Naisi	punct
25	when	when	SCONJ	_	40 denied	mark
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 causeway	case
27	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 causeway	det
28	causeway	causeway	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 denied	nsubj:pass
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 sang	nsubj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 you	cc
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 I	conj
32	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 evening	det
33	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sang	nsubj
34	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 causeway	acl:relcl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 hadst	punct
36	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	38 hadst	obj
37	prayer	prayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 hadst	nsubj
38	hadst	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 denied	aux:pass
39	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	38 hadst	obj
40	denied	deny	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 ride	advcl
41	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 leal	punct
42	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 leal	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	ere	past	house		noon	tree rules
2	ride	future	us	Naisi		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent naisi=Theme
3	sing speech: express	past	I	that causeway not said here		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location causeway=Theme
4	deny	past · passive		that causeway		vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Eventuality

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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🌲 The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 35

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The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 35