The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 5
Ill-timed, ill-omened, and unblest thy feast’-- Then Barach; ‘Let those Three to Conor speed; The king is greatest here, and I the least: But thou--thine oath that later pledge foreran: If broke, it lays thine honour under ban.’
Who acts: king, that, feast, thine · What happens: time, omen, let, be, foreran, break · To what, where: unblest feast, Three, Conor speed, honour, ban
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 (king, that, feast, thine), 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 | Ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 timed | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ill | punct |
| 3 | timed | time | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 omened | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 omened | punct |
| 5 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 omened | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 ill | punct |
| 7 | omened | omen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 feast | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 unblest | cc |
| 10 | unblest | unbl | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 feast | amod |
| 11 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 feast | nmod:poss |
| 12 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 omened | obj |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 feast | punct |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 Barach | punct |
| 15 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 Barach | advmod |
| 16 | Barach | Barach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 omened | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 Let | punct |
| 18 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 Let | punct |
| 19 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 omened | conj |
| 20 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 21 Three | det |
| 21 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 Let | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 speed | case |
| 23 | Conor | conor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 speed | amod |
| 24 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Three | nmod |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 greatest | punct |
| 26 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 king | det |
| 27 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 greatest | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 greatest | cop |
| 29 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 Let | xcomp |
| 30 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 greatest | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 least | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 least | cc |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 least | nsubj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 least | det |
| 35 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 Let | parataxis |
| 36 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 38 thou | punct |
| 37 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 38 thou | cc |
| 38 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 omened | obl |
| 39 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 41 oath | punct |
| 40 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 41 oath | nmod:poss |
| 41 | oath | oath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 thou | conj |
| 42 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 foreran | nsubj |
| 43 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 45 foreran | advmod |
| 44 | pledge | pledge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 foreran | compound |
| 45 | foreran | foreran | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 oath | appos |
| 46 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 51 lays | punct |
| 47 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 48 broke | mark |
| 48 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 lays | advcl |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 broke | punct |
| 50 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 lays | nsubj |
| 51 | lays | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 foreran | parataxis |
| 52 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 53 honour | nmod:poss |
| 53 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 lays | obj |
| 54 | under | under | ADP | _ | 55 ban | case |
| 55 | ban | ban | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 lays | obl |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 45 foreran | punct |
| 57 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 45 foreran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | time | participle | vn register-54.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | omen | participle | thy unblest feast | Barach obl; thou thine oath obl | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | that Three | Conor speed | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent three=Theme to speed=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is | present | the king | here | great property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | foreran | that | late property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | break a condition, not said to happen | past | feast not said here | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 7 | lay | present | feast | thine honour | ban | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent honour=Theme under ban=Destination | |||
| 8 | honour | thine | nom honour «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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