The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 133
A Hound is mine, Each eve I loose him, lion-like, and fell; The blood of many a rogue is on his mouth: The bravest, if they hear him bay far off, Flee like a deer!”
Who acts: Hound, I, blood, eves · What happens: be, loose, fall, hear · To what, where: mine, Hound, mouth
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 (Hound, I, blood, eves), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Hound | det |
| 2 | Hound | hound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mine | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 mine | cop |
| 4 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 like | parataxis |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 mine | punct |
| 6 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 eve | det |
| 7 | eve | eve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 like | nsubj |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 loose | nsubj |
| 9 | loose | loose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 eve | acl:relcl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 loose | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 like | punct |
| 12 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 like | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 lion | punct |
| 14 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fell | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 fell | cc |
| 17 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 like | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 mouth | punct |
| 19 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 blood | det |
| 20 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 mouth | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 rogue | case |
| 22 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 rogue | amod |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 rogue | det |
| 24 | rogue | rogue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 blood | nmod |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 mouth | cop |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 mouth | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 28 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 like | conj |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 31 bravest | punct |
| 30 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 bravest | det |
| 31 | bravest | brave | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 mouth | appos |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 hear | punct |
| 33 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 35 hear | mark |
| 34 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 hear | nsubj |
| 35 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 bravest | conj |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 hear | obj |
| 37 | bay | bay | ADV | _ | 35 hear | advmod |
| 38 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 39 off | advmod |
| 39 | off | off | ADV | _ | 35 hear | advmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 Flee | punct |
| 41 | Flee | Flee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 bravest | obl |
| 42 | like | like | ADP | _ | 44 deer | case |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 deer | det |
| 44 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 bravest | obl |
| 45 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 like | punct |
| 46 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a Hound | mine | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | loose | past | I | Hound | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | is | present | the blood of a many rogue | Hound's mouth | Hound nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 5 | hear a condition, not said to happen | present | eves = eve | Hound | bay, off property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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