The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 220
His mood Changed into mirthful: fleeter than the wind Six stags went by him, stateliest of the herd; Afoot he chased them, caught them, bound them fast Behind the chariot rail.
Who acts: Six stags, Afoot · What happens: change, go, chase, catch, bound · To what, where: mood, mirthful, stateliest, stags, chariot rail
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 (Six stags, Afoot), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mood | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mood | mood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fleeter | nsubj |
| 3 | Changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 mood | acl |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 mirthful | case |
| 5 | mirthful | mirthful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Changed | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 fleeter | punct |
| 7 | fleeter | fleet | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 wind | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wind | det |
| 10 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fleeter | obl |
| 11 | Six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 stags | nummod |
| 12 | stags | stag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fleeter | parataxis |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 went | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stateliest | punct |
| 17 | stateliest | stately | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 went | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 herd | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 herd | det |
| 20 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stateliest | nmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 chased | punct |
| 22 | Afoot | Afoot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 chased | nsubj |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 chased | nsubj |
| 24 | chased | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fleeter | parataxis |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 chased | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 caught | punct |
| 27 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 chased | conj |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 caught | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 bound | punct |
| 30 | bound | bound | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 fleeter | parataxis |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 bound | obj |
| 32 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 bound | advmod |
| 33 | Behind | behind | ADP | _ | 36 rail | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 rail | det |
| 35 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 rail | compound |
| 36 | rail | rail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 bound | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fleeter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | participle | car's mood not said here | into mirthful result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into mirthful=Result | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Six stags | stateliest of the herd | by car | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by he=Location | |||
| 3 | chase | past | Afoot | stags = stag | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | catch | past | Afoot not said here | stags = stag | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 5 | bound | infinitive | stags = stag | the chariot rail | fast property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location they=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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