The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 107
That day Cuchullain clomb a rock tree-girt And kenned beyond the forest’s roof a host Innumerable, the standards of Queen Meave, And Fergus, and the great confederate kings.
Who acts: rock, tree girt · What happens: girt, ken · To what, where: host
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rock, tree girt), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 kenned | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | Cuchullain | Cuchullain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 clomb | compound |
| 4 | clomb | clomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 day | appos |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 girt | det |
| 6 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 girt | nsubj |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 girt | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 girt | punct |
| 9 | girt | girt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 kenned | nsubj |
| 10 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 kenned | cc |
| 11 | kenned | ken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 16 roof | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 forest | det |
| 14 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 roof | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 forest | case |
| 16 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 kenned | obl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 host | det |
| 18 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 kenned | obj |
| 19 | Innumerable | Innumerable | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 host | appos |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 standards | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 standards | det |
| 22 | standards | standard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 host | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Queen | case |
| 24 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 standards | nmod |
| 25 | Meave | Meave | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Queen | flat |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Fergus | punct |
| 27 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 Fergus | cc |
| 28 | Fergus | Fergus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 kenned | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 kings | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 kings | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 kings | det |
| 32 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 kings | amod |
| 33 | confederate | confederate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 kings | compound |
| 34 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 kenned | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 kenned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | girt | rock | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | ken | past | a tree girt | a host and the standards of Queen | day | beyond the forest's roof; Fergus obl; the great confederate kings obl | tree rules |
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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