The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 122
Other spectacle Met him, a chariot small with horses small, And, o’er the axle bent, a small old man Urging them feebly on.
Who acts: Other spectacle, small old man · What happens: meet, bend, urge · To what, where: Southward, axle
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Other spectacle, small old man), 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 | Other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 spectacle | amod |
| 2 | spectacle | spectacle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Met | nsubj |
| 3 | Met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 Met | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 chariot | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 chariot | det |
| 7 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Met | obl |
| 8 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 chariot | amod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 horses | case |
| 10 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 small | obl |
| 11 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 small | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 axle | punct |
| 13 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 axle | cc |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 axle | punct |
| 15 | o’er | o'er | ADP | _ | 17 axle | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 axle | det |
| 17 | axle | axle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Met | obl |
| 18 | bent | bend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 axle | acl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 man | punct |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 man | det |
| 21 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 man | amod |
| 22 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 man | amod |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 axle | conj |
| 24 | Urging | urge | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 man | acl |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 Urging | obj |
| 26 | feebly | feebly | ADV | _ | 27 on | advmod |
| 27 | on | on | ADV | _ | 24 Urging | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | Other spectacle | Southward | o'er the axle and a small old man; a chariot obl | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | bend | participle | the axle and a small old man not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | urge | gerund | a small old man not said here | axle | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
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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