The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 64
Yet oft, Listening those bickerings in her camp she frowned: For still the chieftains strove; and one, a king Briarind, had tongue so sharp, where’er he moved A guard was round him set lest spleen of his Should set the monarchs ravening each on each.
Who acts: Queen, chieftains, Briarind, where’er, spleen, monarchs · What happens: listen, frown, strive, have, move, be · To what, where: bickerings, camp, guard, one tongue, monarchs, each
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 (Queen, chieftains, Briarind, where’er), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 2 oft | cc |
| 2 | oft | oft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Listening | punct |
| 4 | Listening | listen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 oft | advcl |
| 5 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 bickerings | det |
| 6 | bickerings | bickering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Listening | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 camp | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 camp | nmod:poss |
| 9 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Listening | obl |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 frowned | nsubj |
| 11 | frowned | frown | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 camp | acl:relcl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 strove | punct |
| 13 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 strove | mark |
| 14 | still | still | ADV | _ | 17 strove | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 chieftains | det |
| 16 | chieftains | chieftain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 strove | nsubj |
| 17 | strove | strive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 oft | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 tongue | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 tongue | cc |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 tongue | nummod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Briarind | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 king | det |
| 23 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Briarind | nmod:desc |
| 24 | Briarind | Briarind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 had | nsubj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Briarind | punct |
| 26 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 one | parataxis |
| 27 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 oft | conj |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 sharp | advmod |
| 29 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 tongue | amod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 where’er | punct |
| 31 | where’er | where'er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 set | nsubj |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 moved | nsubj |
| 33 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 where’er | acl:relcl |
| 34 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 guard | det |
| 35 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 moved | obj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 set | cop |
| 37 | round | round | ADP | _ | 38 him | case |
| 38 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 set | obl |
| 39 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 tongue | acl:relcl |
| 40 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 41 spleen | case |
| 41 | spleen | spleen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 set | obl |
| 42 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 45 set | mark |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 set | nmod:poss |
| 44 | Should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 set | aux |
| 45 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 spleen | acl |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 monarchs | det |
| 47 | monarchs | monarch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 set | obj |
| 48 | ravening | raven | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 47 monarchs | acl |
| 49 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 48 ravening | obj |
| 50 | on | on | ADP | _ | 51 each | case |
| 51 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 49 each | nmod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 oft | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | gerund | that bickerings | Queen's camp | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | frown | past | Queen | Queen's camp not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camp=Theme | ||||
| 3 | strive | past | the chieftains | still | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | past | Briarind a king | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | move | past | Briarind | a guard | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent guard=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is | past | where’er | one tongue not said here | round Briarind; lest spleen; set property | tree rules | |||
| 7 | set | should | spleen not said here | the monarchs | Briarind nmod:poss | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient monarch=Result | |||
| 8 | raven | gerund | the monarchs not said here | each | each | tree rules |
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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