The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 98
But Illan, grieved at heart, with sword half drawn, Replied, ‘While lives this sword, whoe’er may fly, Faithful and true to Usnach’s Sons am I!’
Who acts: Illan, I, whoe’er · What happens: grieve, draw, reply, be, fly · To what, where: heart, sword half
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 (Illan, I, whoe’er), 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 | _ | 4 grieved | cc |
| 2 | Illan | Illan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 grieved | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 grieved | punct |
| 4 | grieved | grieve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 heart | case |
| 6 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grieved | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 half | punct |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 half | case |
| 9 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 half | compound |
| 10 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 4 grieved | parataxis |
| 11 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 half | acl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Replied | punct |
| 13 | Replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 drawn | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 half | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 lives | punct |
| 16 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 17 lives | mark |
| 17 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 grieved | parataxis |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 sword | det |
| 19 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lives | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fly | punct |
| 21 | whoe’er | whoe'er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fly | nsubj |
| 22 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 fly | aux |
| 23 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 lives | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Faithful | punct |
| 25 | Faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 fly | conj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 true | cc |
| 27 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Faithful | conj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 Sons | case |
| 29 | Usnach | Usnach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Sons | nmod:poss |
| 30 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 29 Usnach | case |
| 31 | Sons | Son | PROPN | Number=Plur | 27 true | obl |
| 32 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 lives | cop |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 lives | nsubj |
| 34 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 17 lives | punct |
| 35 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 lives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grieve | participle | Illan | heart | sword half parataxis | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | draw | participle | sword half not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | participle | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is | present | I | this sword obj; live property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | fly | may | whoe’er | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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