The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 31
Then loudly stormed the queen:-- In rushed her lords, and stood, a senate grave, Circling the couch: and while, each answering each, Ailill and Meave set forth in order due The treasures either boasted, kine, or sheep, Rich cornfield, jewel’d robe, or gem-wrought car, Careful they weighed the lists in equal scale And ’twixt them found in value difference none.
Who acts: each, Ailill, due treasures, treasures · What happens: storm, rush, stand, circle, answer, set · To what, where: queen, lords, senate grave, couch, each, order
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 (each, Ailill, due treasures, treasures), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 stormed | advmod |
| 2 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 3 stormed | advmod |
| 3 | stormed | storm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 queen | det |
| 5 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stormed | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 stormed | punct |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 rushed | punct |
| 8 | In | in | SCONJ | _ | 9 rushed | mark |
| 9 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stormed | parataxis |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 lords | nmod:poss |
| 11 | lords | lord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 rushed | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stood | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 stood | cc |
| 14 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stormed | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 grave | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 grave | det |
| 17 | senate | senate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 grave | amod |
| 18 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stood | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Circling | punct |
| 20 | Circling | circle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 stood | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 couch | det |
| 22 | couch | couch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Circling | obj |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 while | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 while | cc |
| 25 | while | while | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 stormed | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 answering | punct |
| 27 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 answering | nsubj |
| 28 | answering | answer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 stormed | advcl |
| 29 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 answering | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Ailill | punct |
| 31 | Ailill | Ailill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 set | nsubj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 Meave | cc |
| 33 | Meave | Meave | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Ailill | conj |
| 34 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stormed | parataxis |
| 35 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 34 set | advmod |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 order | case |
| 37 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 set | obl |
| 38 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 treasures | amod |
| 39 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 treasures | det |
| 40 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 boasted | nsubj |
| 41 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 42 boasted | advmod |
| 42 | boasted | boast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 set | parataxis |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 kine | punct |
| 44 | kine | kine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 boasted | obj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 sheep | punct |
| 46 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 47 sheep | cc |
| 47 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 boasted | obl |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 cornfield | punct |
| 49 | Rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 cornfield | amod |
| 50 | cornfield | cornfield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 sheep | conj |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 jewel | punct |
| 52 | jewel | jewel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 cornfield | conj |
| 53 | ’d | ' | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 54 robe | amod |
| 54 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 cornfield | conj |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 60 car | punct |
| 56 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 60 car | cc |
| 57 | gem | gem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 60 car | compound |
| 58 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 57 gem | punct |
| 59 | wrought | wrought | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 60 car | amod |
| 60 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 boasted | obl |
| 61 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 62 Careful | punct |
| 62 | Careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 60 car | amod |
| 63 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 64 weighed | nsubj |
| 64 | weighed | weigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 62 Careful | acl:relcl |
| 65 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 66 lists | det |
| 66 | lists | list | NOUN | Number=Plur | 64 weighed | obj |
| 67 | in | in | ADP | _ | 69 scale | case |
| 68 | equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 69 scale | amod |
| 69 | scale | scale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 64 weighed | obl |
| 70 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 74 found | cc |
| 71 | ’ | ' | X | _ | 74 found | nsubj:pass |
| 72 | twixt | twixt | X | _ | 71 ’ | goeswith |
| 73 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 71 ’ | goeswith |
| 74 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 64 weighed | conj |
| 75 | in | in | ADP | _ | 78 none | case |
| 76 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 77 difference | compound |
| 77 | difference | difference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 78 none | compound |
| 78 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 74 found | obl |
| 79 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stormed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | storm | past | the queen | then | loudly, while property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | rush | past | Queen's lords | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lord=Agent | |||||
| 3 | stand | past | a senate grave | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | circle | gerund | the couch | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme couch=Co-Theme | |||||
| 5 | answer speech: assert | gerund | each | each | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent each=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | set | past | Ailill and Meave | order | forth property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in order=Destination | |||
| 7 | boast speech: other | past | the due treasures | kine | sheep and Rich cornfield and jewel and ’d robe obl; gem wrought car obl; either property | tree rules | |||
| 8 | ' | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 9 | weigh | past | treasures = treasure | the lists | equal scale | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme list=Value | |||
| 10 | find | participle · passive | ’ treasures | none | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/11/31/