The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 30
My hoards are higher heaped than yours; my meads More deep, more rich!’
Who acts: hoards, My · What happens: be, heap, hoard
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 (hoards, My), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 hoards | nmod:poss |
| 2 | hoards | hoard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 higher | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 higher | cop |
| 4 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | heaped | heap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 higher | advcl |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 yours | case |
| 7 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 heaped | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 deep | punct |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 meads | nmod:poss |
| 10 | meads | mead | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 More | nsubj |
| 11 | More | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 deep | advmod |
| 12 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 higher | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 more | punct |
| 14 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 rich | advmod |
| 15 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 higher | advcl |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 higher | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 higher | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | My hoards | high property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | heap | participle | My hoards not said here | than yours | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | be | My hoards not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | hoard | My | nom hoard «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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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