The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 90
But Conor sent for Buini, and at door Whispered him low; ‘I yield thee Fo-äd-Fell!’
Who acts: Conor, I · What happens: send, whisper, yield · To what, where: Buini, door, thee
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 (Conor, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 sent | cc |
| 2 | Conor | Conor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 Buini | case |
| 5 | Buini | Buini | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Whispered | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Whispered | cc |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 door | case |
| 9 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Whispered | obl |
| 10 | Whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 Whispered | obj |
| 12 | low | low | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 Whispered | advmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 yield | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 yield | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 yield | nsubj |
| 16 | yield | yield | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | conj |
| 17 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 yield | obj |
| 18 | Fo | for | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 22 Fell | case |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Fo | punct |
| 20 | äd | äd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Fell | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 äd | punct |
| 22 | Fell | Fell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 yield | obl |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | Conor | for Buini | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | past | Conor not said here | Buini | door | low property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | ||
| 3 | yield | present | I | thee | for äd Fell goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent thou=Theme for fell=Goal |
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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