The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 97
Five Saints obeyed And o’er that venerable spot three days Fasting made prayer while knelt the bards around.
Who acts: Saints, that, three days, while · What happens: obey, spot, fast, make, kneel around · To what, where: Five, made prayer, bards
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 (Saints, that, three days, while), 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 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 obeyed | obl |
| 2 | Saints | Saint | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 obeyed | nsubj |
| 3 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 o’er | cc |
| 5 | o’er | o'er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 obeyed | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 spot | nsubj |
| 7 | venerable | venerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 spot | amod |
| 8 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 o’er | ccomp |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 days | nummod |
| 10 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 obeyed | obj |
| 11 | Fasting | fast | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 days | acl |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 prayer | amod |
| 13 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Fasting | obj |
| 14 | while | while | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 knelt | nsubj |
| 15 | knelt | kneel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 prayer | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bards | det |
| 17 | bards | bard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 knelt | obj |
| 18 | around | around | ADV | _ | 15 knelt | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 obeyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obey | past | Saints | Five | day | o’er obj | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent o'er=Theme | ||
| 2 | spot | that | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | fast | gerund | three days not said here | made prayer | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | make | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 5 | kneel around | past | while | the bards | around property | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bard=Topic |
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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