The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 97
Then Deirdré, as the battle raged below, Spake lightly thus, while on she pushed a pawn, ‘Buini has gone like Fergus--let him go!’
Who acts: mist, Buini, you, Deirdré · What happens: rage, push, go, let · To what, where: battle, pawn, Deirdré
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 (mist, Buini, you, Deirdré), 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 | 12 thus | advmod |
| 2 | Deirdré | Deirdré | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 thus | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 battle | punct |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 battle | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 battle | det |
| 6 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Deirdré | appos |
| 7 | raged | rage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 battle | acl |
| 8 | below | below | ADV | _ | 7 raged | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Spake | punct |
| 10 | Spake | speak | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Deirdré | conj |
| 11 | lightly | lightly | ADV | _ | 12 thus | advmod |
| 12 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 28 let | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pushed | punct |
| 14 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 17 pushed | mark |
| 15 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 17 pushed | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 pushed | nsubj |
| 17 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 thus | advcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 pawn | det |
| 19 | pawn | pawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pushed | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 gone | punct |
| 21 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 gone | punct |
| 22 | Buini | Buini | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 gone | nsubj |
| 23 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 gone | aux |
| 24 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 pushed | parataxis |
| 25 | like | like | ADP | _ | 26 Fergus | case |
| 26 | Fergus | Fergus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 gone | obl |
| 27 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 thus | punct |
| 28 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 let | obj |
| 30 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 let | xcomp |
| 31 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 28 let | punct |
| 32 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rage | participle | the battle not said here | below property | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | push | past | mist | a pawn | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pawn=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | present · perfect | Buini | like Fergus | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | let | imperative | you not said here | Deirdré | then | thus property | tree rules | ||
| 5 | go | infinitive | Deirdré not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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