The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 129
Evermore I cried, “Arise! the stranger’s foot is on your soil: They come to stall their horses in your halls; To slay your sons; enslave your spotless maids; Alone my son withstands them!”
Who acts: I, foot, feet, son · What happens: cry, arise, be, come, stall, slay · To what, where: soil, horses, halls, sons, spotless maids · 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 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, foot, feet, son), 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 | Evermore | evermore | ADV | _ | 3 cried | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Arise | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Arise | punct |
| 6 | Arise | arise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 cried | ccomp |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 Arise | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stranger | det |
| 9 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 foot | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 stranger | case |
| 11 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 soil | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 soil | cop |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 soil | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 soil | nmod:poss |
| 15 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Arise | parataxis |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 come | punct |
| 17 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 come | nsubj |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 cried | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 stall | mark |
| 20 | stall | stall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 come | xcomp |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 horses | nmod:poss |
| 22 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 stall | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 halls | case |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 halls | nmod:poss |
| 25 | halls | hall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 stall | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 slay | punct |
| 27 | To | to | PART | _ | 28 slay | mark |
| 28 | slay | slay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 cried | conj |
| 29 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 sons | nmod:poss |
| 30 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 slay | obj |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 enslave | punct |
| 32 | enslave | enslave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 cried | conj |
| 33 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 maids | nmod:poss |
| 34 | spotless | spotless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 maids | amod |
| 35 | maids | maid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 enslave | obj |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 withstands | punct |
| 37 | Alone | alone | ADV | _ | 39 son | advmod |
| 38 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 son | nmod:poss |
| 39 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 withstands | nsubj |
| 40 | withstands | withstand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 cried | conj |
| 41 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 withstands | obj |
| 42 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 40 withstands | punct |
| 43 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 withstands | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | I | evermore property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | arise in a quote | infinitive | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the stranger's foot | your soil | your nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 4 | come in a quote | present | feet = foot | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | stall in a quote | to-infinitive | feet = foot not said here | feet's horses | your halls | vn delay-53.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Eventuality | |||
| 6 | slay in a quote | to-infinitive | I not said here | your sons | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | ||||
| 7 | enslave in a quote | infinitive | I not said here | your spotless maids | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maid=Patient | ||||
| 8 | withstand in a quote | present | my son | horses = horse | 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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