The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 81
Then fixed that Wild One on the North her eyes, And Meave made answer; ‘In those eyes I see The fates they see; great Uladh’s realm full-armed, And all that Red Branch Order as one man.’
Who acts: eyes, fates · What happens: fix, make, see · To what, where: eyes, North, fates
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 (eyes, fates), 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 | 2 fixed | advmod |
| 2 | fixed | fix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 One | mark |
| 4 | Wild | Wild | PROPN | _ | 5 One | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 fixed | advcl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 North | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 North | det |
| 8 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 fixed | obl |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 fixed | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 answer | punct |
| 12 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 answer | cc |
| 13 | Meave | Meave | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 made | compound |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 answer | amod |
| 15 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fixed | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 see | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 eyes | punct |
| 18 | In | in | ADP | _ | 20 eyes | case |
| 19 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 eyes | det |
| 20 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 see | nsubj |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 see | nsubj |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 fixed | conj |
| 23 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 fates | det |
| 24 | fates | fate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 see | obj |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 see | nsubj |
| 26 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 fates | acl:relcl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 realm | punct |
| 28 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Uladh | amod |
| 29 | Uladh | Uladh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 realm | nmod:poss |
| 30 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 29 Uladh | case |
| 31 | realm | realm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fixed | parataxis |
| 32 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 realm | amod |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 full | punct |
| 34 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 full | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 Order | punct |
| 36 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 Order | cc |
| 37 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 41 Order | det:predet |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 41 Order | mark |
| 39 | Red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 Order | amod |
| 40 | Branch | Branch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Order | compound |
| 41 | Order | Order | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 realm | appos |
| 42 | as | as | ADP | _ | 44 man | case |
| 43 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 44 man | nummod |
| 44 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 Order | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 41 Order | punct |
| 46 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 31 realm | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix | past | Wild's eyes | the North | then | One Wild advcl; made answer conj; great Uladh's realm parataxis | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||
| 2 | make | participle | Meave compound | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 3 | see | present | that eyes | the fates | I nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fate=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | see | present | fates = fate | the fates not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fate=Stimulus |
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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