The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 98
In woods remote; and earthward bowed his head; And said; ‘that sound is distant thirty leagues, And huge that host;’ then bade prepare his car, And southward sped, counsel to hold as wont With Faythleen nigh to Tara.
Who acts: woods remote, sound, host · What happens: bow, say, be, prepare, speed, hold · To what, where: head, car, counsel, woods remote · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (woods remote, sound, host), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 remote | case |
| 2 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 remote | compound |
| 3 | remote | remote | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 bowed | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 bowed | cc |
| 6 | earthward | earthward | ADV | _ | 7 bowed | advmod |
| 7 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 remote | acl:relcl |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 head | nmod:poss |
| 9 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bowed | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bowed | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 distant | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 distant | punct |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 sound | det |
| 16 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 distant | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 distant | cop |
| 18 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 said | ccomp |
| 19 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 leagues | nummod |
| 20 | leagues | league | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 distant | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 huge | punct |
| 22 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 huge | cc |
| 23 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 distant | parataxis |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 prepare | mark |
| 25 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 prepare | nsubj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 host | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 host | punct |
| 28 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 bade | advmod |
| 29 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 host | conj |
| 30 | prepare | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 huge | advcl |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 car | nmod:poss |
| 32 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 prepare | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 sped | punct |
| 34 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 sped | cc |
| 35 | southward | southward | ADV | _ | 36 sped | advmod |
| 36 | sped | speed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 bowed | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 counsel | punct |
| 38 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 sped | obl |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 hold | mark |
| 40 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 sped | advcl |
| 41 | as | as | ADP | _ | 42 wont | case |
| 42 | wont | wont | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 hold | obl |
| 43 | With | with | ADP | _ | 44 Faythleen | case |
| 44 | Faythleen | Faythleen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 hold | obl |
| 45 | nigh | nigh | ADV | _ | 40 hold | advmod |
| 46 | to | to | ADP | _ | 47 Tara | case |
| 47 | Tara | Tara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 nigh | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 remote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow | past | woods remote not said here | dependent's head | earthward property | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | woods remote not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | that sound | thirty leagues obl; distant property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | prepare | infinitive | host and bade | dependent's car | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Patient | ||||
| 5 | speed | participle | woods remote not said here | counsel | southward property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 6 | hold | to-infinitive | woods remote not said here | as wont; with Faythleen; nigh property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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