The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 88
Dreadful his array; For many a chief, though Conor’s liegeman sworn, In wrath had joined the old king on his way: And Fergus cursed the Ruthless Red, and said, ‘A woman’s hand one day shall strike him dead!’
Who acts: Fergus, hand · What happens: swear, join, curse, say, strike · To what, where: liegeman, old king, wrath, Ruthless Red, Fergus, Dreadful array · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Fergus, hand), 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 | Dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 array | amod |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 array | nmod:poss |
| 3 | array | array | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 chief | punct |
| 5 | For | for | ADP | _ | 8 chief | case |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 chief | amod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 chief | det |
| 8 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 array | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 liegeman | punct |
| 10 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 13 liegeman | mark |
| 11 | Conor | Conor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 liegeman | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 Conor | case |
| 13 | liegeman | liegeman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 chief | conj |
| 14 | sworn | swear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 liegeman | acl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 joined | punct |
| 16 | In | in | ADP | _ | 17 wrath | case |
| 17 | wrath | wrath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 joined | obl |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 joined | aux |
| 19 | joined | join | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 sworn | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 king | det |
| 21 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 king | amod |
| 22 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 joined | obj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 way | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 way | nmod:poss |
| 25 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 king | nmod |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 29 cursed | punct |
| 27 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 cursed | cc |
| 28 | Fergus | Fergus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 cursed | nsubj |
| 29 | cursed | curse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 chief | parataxis |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Red | det |
| 31 | Ruthless | Ruthless | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Red | compound |
| 32 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 cursed | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 said | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 said | cc |
| 35 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 cursed | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 hand | punct |
| 37 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 41 hand | punct |
| 38 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 woman | det |
| 39 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 hand | nmod:poss |
| 40 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 39 woman | case |
| 41 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 strike | nsubj |
| 42 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 43 day | nummod |
| 43 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 hand | obl:unmarked |
| 44 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 strike | aux |
| 45 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 said | ccomp |
| 46 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 strike | obj |
| 47 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 strike | xcomp |
| 48 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 chief | punct |
| 49 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 chief | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swear | participle | Conor's liegeman not said here | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | join | past · perfect | the old king | wrath | on Eman's way | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient | |||
| 3 | curse | past | Fergus | the Ruthless Red | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent red=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Fergus not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | strike | shall | a woman's hand one day | Fergus | dead property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument |
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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