The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 64
Then when the Babe was born, the seer foretold-- What?
What happens: bear, foretell · To what, where: Babe, seer
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: 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 | 6 born | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 born | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Babe | det |
| 4 | Babe | Babe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 born | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 born | aux:pass |
| 6 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 born | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 seer | det |
| 9 | seer | seer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 What | nsubj |
| 10 | foretold | foretell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 seer | acl |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 What | punct |
| 12 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 born | parataxis |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 born | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · passive | the Babe | then | What the seer parataxis | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | foretell | participle | the seer not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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