The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 136
Forth they rushed-- There stood he, bright and calm, his rigid hands Clasping the dead hound’s throat!
Who acts: king, rigid hands · What happens: rush, stand, clasp · To what, where: boy, throat
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 (king, rigid hands), 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 | Forth | forth | ADV | _ | 3 rushed | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rushed | nsubj |
| 3 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 6 stood | punct |
| 5 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 stood | expl |
| 6 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rushed | conj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 stood | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bright | punct |
| 9 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stood | parataxis |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 calm | cc |
| 11 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bright | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Clasping | punct |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 hands | nmod:poss |
| 14 | rigid | rigid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hands | amod |
| 15 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 Clasping | nsubj |
| 16 | Clasping | clasp | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 rushed | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 hound | det |
| 18 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hound | amod |
| 19 | hound | hound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 throat | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 hound | case |
| 21 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Clasping | obj |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | past | king | forth property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | king not said here | boy | there | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | clasp | gerund | boy's rigid hands | the dead hound's throat | vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent throat=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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