The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 96

Then arose Marbhan, and spake; ‘Send prayer to Erin’s Saints That, bowed o’er Fergus’ grave, they lift their hands For Erin at her need.’

Who acts: fragments, Fergus · What happens: arise, send, bow, lift, need · To what, where: Marbhan, prayer, hands, need

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 (fragments, Fergus), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 arose	advmod
2	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Marbhan	Marbhan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 arose	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 spake	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 spake	cc
6	spake	speak	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 arose	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 Send	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 Send	punct
9	Send	send	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 arose	parataxis
10	prayer	prayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Send	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 Saints	case
12	Erin	Erin	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Saints	nmod:poss
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 Erin	case
14	Saints	Saint	PROPN	Number=Plur	9 Send	obj
15	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 Saints	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bowed	punct
17	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 Send	parataxis
18	o’er	o'er	ADP	_	21 grave	case
19	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 grave	nmod:poss
20	’	's	PART	_	19 Fergus	case
21	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bowed	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 lift	punct
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 lift	nsubj
24	lift	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 Send	conj
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 hands	nmod:poss
26	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 lift	obj
27	For	for	ADP	_	28 Erin	case
28	Erin	Erin	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 lift	obl
29	at	at	ADP	_	31 need	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 need	nmod:poss
31	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lift	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 Send	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 Send	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arise	past		Marbhan		then	spake obl	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location marbhan=Theme
2	send	infinitive		prayer			Erin's Saints That obj	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent prayer=Destination saint=Theme
3	bow	past					o'er Fergus's grave	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	lift	present	fragments = fragment	fragments's hands	Fergus's need		for Erin	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme at need=Destination
5	need		Fergus					nom need «state 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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🌲 The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 96

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The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 96