The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 199
This way and that they rolled prophetic bolts Three hours; and brake with warnings from the stars And mandates from the synod of the Gods, The king’s resolve.
Who acts: ways, way · What happens: roll, break · To what, where: prophetic bolts, way
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 (ways, way), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 way | det |
| 2 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 rolled | cc |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 rolled | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 rolled | nsubj |
| 6 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 way | conj |
| 7 | prophetic | prophetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bolts | amod |
| 8 | bolts | bolt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 rolled | obj |
| 9 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 hours | nummod |
| 10 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 bolts | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 brake | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 brake | cc |
| 13 | brake | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 way | acl:relcl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 warnings | case |
| 15 | warnings | warning | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 brake | obl |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 stars | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 stars | det |
| 18 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 brake | obl |
| 19 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 mandates | cc |
| 20 | mandates | mandate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 stars | conj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 synod | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 synod | det |
| 23 | synod | synod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brake | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Gods | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Gods | det |
| 26 | Gods | God | PROPN | Number=Plur | 23 synod | appos |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 resolve | punct |
| 28 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 king | det |
| 29 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 resolve | nmod:poss |
| 30 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 29 king | case |
| 31 | resolve | resolve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Gods | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 way | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll | past | ways = way | prophetic bolts and Three hours | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bolt=Agent | ||||
| 2 | break | infinitive | this way not said here | with warnings; from the synod; from the stars and mandates | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from star=Co-Patient |
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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