The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 204
‘An eye star-keen That boy upon them fixed, and, each on each, Smote them.
Who acts: eye star keen · What happens: fix · To what, where: Smote
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 (eye star keen), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 fixed | punct |
| 2 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 keen | det |
| 3 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 keen | compound |
| 4 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 keen | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 star | punct |
| 6 | keen | keen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fixed | nsubj |
| 7 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 boy | det |
| 8 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fixed | nsubj |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 boy | nmod |
| 11 | fixed | fix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Smote | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Smote | cc |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 each | punct |
| 15 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 Smote | det |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 each | case |
| 17 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 each | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 each | punct |
| 19 | Smote | Smote | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 fixed | obl |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 Smote | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 fixed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix | past | a eye star keen | each Smote vows | that boy upon vows nsubj | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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