The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 41
Three days had passed: Then by the tower of Daré stood Mac Roth And blew his horn; and Daré’s sons with speed Flung the gate wide.
Who acts: Daré sons · What happens: pass, stand, blow, fling · To what, where: Three days, Mac, horn, gate
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 (Daré sons), 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 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 days | nummod |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 passed | aux |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 stood | punct |
| 6 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 stood | advmod |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 tower | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tower | det |
| 9 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stood | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Daré | case |
| 11 | Daré | Daré | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 tower | nmod |
| 12 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 passed | parataxis |
| 13 | Mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 stood | obj |
| 14 | Roth | Roth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Mac | flat |
| 15 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 blew | cc |
| 16 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 stood | conj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 horn | nmod:poss |
| 18 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 blew | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 sons | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 Daré | cc |
| 21 | Daré | Daré | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 sons | compound |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 Daré | case |
| 23 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 passed | parataxis |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 speed | case |
| 25 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sons | nmod |
| 26 | Flung | fling | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 sons | acl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 gate | det |
| 28 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Flung | obj |
| 29 | wide | wide | ADV | _ | 26 Flung | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past · perfect · passive | Three days | Daré sons with speed parataxis | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | Mac | then | by the tower of Daré | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mac=Theme by tower=Destination | |||
| 3 | blow | past | Daré's horn | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent horn=Patient | |||||
| 4 | fling | participle | Daré sons with speed not said here | the gate | wide property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=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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