The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 60
Eiderkool Marched, ever shrilling songs and shaking spears: And, mightier far, with never slumbering hearts And eyes that stared through long desire of home Uladh’s three thousand exiles, driven far forth When Conor Conchobar, trampling his pledge, Slaughtered the sons of Usnach.
Who acts: Eiderkool, slumbering hearts, Conor · What happens: march, shrill, shake, not slumber, stare, drive · To what, where: songs, spears, thousand exiles, pledge, sons, home
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 (Eiderkool, slumbering hearts, Conor), 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 | Eiderkool | Eiderkool | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Marched | nsubj |
| 2 | Marched | march | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 shrilling | punct |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 shrilling | advmod |
| 5 | shrilling | shrill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 Marched | advcl |
| 6 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 shrilling | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 shaking | cc |
| 8 | shaking | shake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 shrilling | conj |
| 9 | spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 shaking | obj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 mightier | punct |
| 11 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 mightier | cc |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 mightier | punct |
| 13 | mightier | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 Marched | conj |
| 14 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 Marched | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hearts | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 hearts | case |
| 17 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 slumbering | advmod |
| 18 | slumbering | slumber | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 hearts | amod |
| 19 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Marched | obl |
| 20 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 eyes | cc |
| 21 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 hearts | conj |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 stared | nsubj |
| 23 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 hearts | acl:relcl |
| 24 | through | through | ADP | _ | 26 desire | case |
| 25 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 desire | amod |
| 26 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stared | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 home | case |
| 28 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 desire | nmod |
| 29 | Uladh | Uladh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 exiles | nmod:poss |
| 30 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 29 Uladh | case |
| 31 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 thousand | compound |
| 32 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 exiles | nummod |
| 33 | exiles | exile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 home | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 driven | punct |
| 35 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 exiles | acl |
| 36 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 37 forth | advmod |
| 37 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 35 driven | advmod |
| 38 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 46 Slaughtered | advmod |
| 39 | Conor | Conor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 Slaughtered | nsubj |
| 40 | Conchobar | Conchobar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Conor | flat |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 trampling | punct |
| 42 | trampling | trample | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 39 Conor | conj |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 pledge | nmod:poss |
| 44 | pledge | pledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 trampling | obj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 Conor | punct |
| 46 | Slaughtered | slaughter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 driven | advcl |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 sons | det |
| 48 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 Slaughtered | obj |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 Usnach | case |
| 50 | Usnach | Usnach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 sons | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Marched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | march | past | Eiderkool | with slumbering hearts and eyes; far property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shrill | gerund | Eiderkool not said here | songs | ever | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | |||
| 3 | shake | gerund | Eiderkool not said here | spears | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent spear=Patient | ||||
| 4 | not slumber | gerund | vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | stare | past | slumbering hearts and eyes | through long desire of home and Uladh's thousand exiles | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through desire=Theme | ||||
| 6 | drive | participle | Uladh's thousand exiles not said here | forth property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | trample | gerund | Conor not said here | Eiderkool's pledge | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | slaughter | past | Conor | the sons of Usnach | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | ||||
| 9 | desire | home and Uladh's thousand exiles | nom desire «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 10 | pledge | Eiderkool | nom pledge «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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