The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 117
The hostile host approached, And, halting stood in wonder at that wreath; Yet none could spell the Ogham.
Who acts: hostile host, none · What happens: approach, stand, spell · To what, where: wonder, Ogham
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 (hostile host, none), 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 | 3 host | det |
| 2 | hostile | hostile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 host | amod |
| 3 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 approached | nsubj |
| 4 | approached | approach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stood | punct |
| 6 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 stood | cc |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 halting | punct |
| 8 | halting | halt | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 stood | aux:pass |
| 9 | stood | stand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 approached | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 wonder | case |
| 11 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stood | obl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 wreath | case |
| 13 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 wreath | det |
| 14 | wreath | wreath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stood | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 spell | punct |
| 16 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 19 spell | cc |
| 17 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 19 spell | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 spell | aux |
| 19 | spell | spell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 approached | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Ogham | det |
| 21 | Ogham | Ogham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 spell | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 approached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | approach | participle | the hostile host | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stand | gerund · passive | the hostile host not said here | wonder | at that wreath | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: in wonder=Location | |||
| 3 | spell | could | none | the Ogham | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent ogham=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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