The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 108
The warrior eyed them long with bitter smile; Few words he spake: ‘At fifty thousand men I count them.’
Who acts: warrior, I · What happens: eye, speak, count · To what, where: hosts · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (warrior, I), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 warrior | det |
| 2 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eyed | nsubj |
| 3 | eyed | eye | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 eyed | obj |
| 5 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 eyed | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 smile | case |
| 7 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 smile | amod |
| 8 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eyed | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 words | punct |
| 10 | Few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 words | amod |
| 11 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 eyed | obj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 spake | nsubj |
| 13 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 words | appos |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 count | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 count | punct |
| 16 | At | at | ADP | _ | 19 men | case |
| 17 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 thousand | compound |
| 18 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 men | nummod |
| 19 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 count | obl |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 count | nsubj |
| 21 | count | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 eyed | parataxis |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 count | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 eyed | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 eyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eye | past | the warrior | hosts = host | with bitter smile; Few words obj; long property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | speak speech: other | warrior | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | count | present | I | hosts = host | at thousand men | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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