The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 44
King Lir, a fortnight more in revels spent, Made journey to his castle in the North With her, his youthful consort, well content.
Who acts: revels · What happens: spend, make · To what, where: revels, journey, King
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 (revels), 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 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Lir | Lir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 King | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 more | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 fortnight | det |
| 5 | fortnight | fortnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 more | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 King | amod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 revels | case |
| 8 | revels | revel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 more | obl |
| 9 | spent | spend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 revels | acl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Made | punct |
| 11 | Made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 revels | acl |
| 12 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Made | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 castle | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 castle | nmod:poss |
| 15 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 journey | nmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 North | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 North | det |
| 18 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 castle | nmod |
| 19 | With | with | ADP | _ | 20 her | case |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 North | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 consort | punct |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 consort | nmod:poss |
| 23 | youthful | youthful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 consort | amod |
| 24 | consort | consort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 castle | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 content | punct |
| 26 | well | well | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 content | amod |
| 27 | content | content | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 consort | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 King | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | participle | revels not said here | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | make | participle | revels not said here | journey | to King's castle in the North with Love and King's youthful consort and well content | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset journey=Product |
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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