The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 82
That hour when I was born I should have died: The ill-omened Infant was the ill-omened Bride!’
Who acts: I, hour · What happens: bear, die, omen, be · To what, where: I, omened Bride
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, hour), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 hour | det |
| 2 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Bride | nsubj |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 born | advmod |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 born | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 born | aux:pass |
| 6 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 hour | acl:relcl |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 died | nsubj |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 died | aux |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 died | aux |
| 10 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 born | conj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 Infant | punct |
| 12 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Infant | det |
| 13 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 omened | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 ill | punct |
| 15 | omened | omen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 Infant | amod |
| 16 | Infant | infant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Bride | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 Bride | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Bride | det |
| 19 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 omened | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 ill | punct |
| 21 | omened | omen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 Bride | amod |
| 22 | Bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 22 Bride | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 Bride | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · passive | I | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | die | should · perfect | I | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | omen | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | omen | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | is a | past | that hour | the omened Bride | the omened Infant nsubj | tree rules |
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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