The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 12
The Fates reserve it for a race more true, Ye children of Dedannan’s stock, than you!’
Who acts: Fates, Ye, Dedannan · What happens: reserve, child, stock · To what, where: maid
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fates, Ye, Dedannan), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Fates | det |
| 2 | Fates | fate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 reserve | nsubj |
| 3 | reserve | reserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reserve | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 race | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 race | det |
| 7 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reserve | obl |
| 8 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 true | advmod |
| 9 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 reserve | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 children | punct |
| 11 | Ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 children | nsubj |
| 12 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 reserve | parataxis |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 stock | case |
| 14 | Dedannan | Dedannan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 stock | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 Dedannan | case |
| 16 | stock | stock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 children | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 you | punct |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 you | case |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 reserve | conj |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 reserve | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 reserve | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reserve | present | the Fates | maid | for a race; you conj | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Theme for race=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | child | Ye | of Dedannan's stock | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | stock | Dedannan | nom stock «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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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