The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 66
Finola raised the funeral cry: ‘We tread our native land that we may die!’
Who acts: Finola, We, native land · What happens: raise, tread, die · To what, where: funeral cry, native land
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Finola, We, native land), 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 | Finola | Finola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 raised | nsubj |
| 2 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cry | det |
| 4 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cry | compound |
| 5 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 raised | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 tread | punct |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 tread | punct |
| 8 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 tread | nsubj |
| 9 | tread | tread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 raised | conj |
| 10 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 land | nmod:poss |
| 11 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 land | amod |
| 12 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tread | obj |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 die | nsubj |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 die | nsubj |
| 15 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 die | aux |
| 16 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 land | acl:relcl |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 raised | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | past | Finola | the funeral cry | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tread | present | We | our native land | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location land=Theme | ||||
| 3 | die | may | our native land | we nsubj | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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