The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 114
Meantime his son Took counsel in his heart, and made resolve To skirt, in homeward course, that eastern sea, The woods primeval ’twixt him and the foe, Still sallying night and day through alley and glade And taming thus their pride.
Who acts: Meantime, primeval ’, alley · What happens: take, make, resolve, skirt, sally, pride · To what, where: counsel, heart, primeval ’, homeward course, pride, alley
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 (Meantime, primeval ’, alley), 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 | Meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Took | nsubj |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Meantime | vocative |
| 4 | Took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Took | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 heart | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 heart | nmod:poss |
| 8 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Took | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 made | cc |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Took | conj |
| 12 | resolve | resolve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 made | xcomp |
| 13 | To | to | PART | _ | 14 skirt | mark |
| 14 | skirt | skirt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 resolve | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 course | punct |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 course | case |
| 17 | homeward | homeward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 course | compound |
| 18 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 ’ | punct |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 ’ | mark |
| 21 | eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 sea | amod |
| 22 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 primeval | compound |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 woods | punct |
| 24 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 woods | det |
| 25 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 sea | conj |
| 26 | primeval | primeval | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 ’ | compound |
| 27 | ’ | ' | X | _ | 11 made | obj |
| 28 | twixt | twixt | X | _ | 27 ’ | goeswith |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 ’ | goeswith |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 foe | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 foe | det |
| 32 | foe | foe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 ’ | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 sallying | punct |
| 34 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 35 sallying | advmod |
| 35 | sallying | sally | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 made | advcl |
| 36 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 sallying | obj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 day | cc |
| 38 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 night | conj |
| 39 | through | through | ADP | _ | 40 alley | case |
| 40 | alley | alley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 sallying | obl |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 glade | cc |
| 42 | glade | glade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 alley | conj |
| 43 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 taming | cc |
| 44 | taming | taming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 alley | conj |
| 45 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 47 pride | advmod |
| 46 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 pride | nmod:poss |
| 47 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 sallying | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Meantime many's son | counsel | many's heart | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent counsel=Value in heart=Location | |||
| 2 | make | past | Meantime many's son not said here | primeval ’ many and the foe | homeward course | tree rules | |||
| 3 | resolve | infinitive | primeval ’ many and the foe not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | skirt | to-infinitive | primeval ’ many and the foe not said here | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | sally | gerund | Meantime many's son not said here | alley's pride | alley and glade and taming | still; night | tree rules | ||
| 6 | pride | alley | nom pride «feeling 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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