The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 46
Against that recreant Fergus hurled his spear, And slew him, and continued, ‘Hundreds six, Our best, have perished, and our march is slow: Now, warriors, hear my counsel, and my terms.
Who acts: Fergus, march, my · What happens: hurl, slay, continue, perish, be, hear · To what, where: spear, recreant, Fergus, Hundreds, best, counsel
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 (Fergus, march, my), 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 | Against | against | ADP | _ | 3 recreant | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 recreant | det |
| 3 | recreant | recreant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hurled | obl |
| 4 | Fergus | Fergus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 hurled | nsubj |
| 5 | hurled | hurl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 spear | nmod:poss |
| 7 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hurled | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 slew | punct |
| 9 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 slew | cc |
| 10 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hurled | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 slew | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 continued | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 continued | cc |
| 14 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hurled | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Hundreds | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 Hundreds | punct |
| 17 | Hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 continued | obl |
| 18 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 Hundreds | flat |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 best | punct |
| 20 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 best | nmod:poss |
| 21 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 perished | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 best | punct |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 perished | aux |
| 24 | perished | perish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 continued | ccomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 slow | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 slow | cc |
| 27 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 march | nmod:poss |
| 28 | march | march | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 slow | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 slow | cop |
| 30 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hurled | conj |
| 31 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 32 Now | punct |
| 32 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 slow | advmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 warriors | punct |
| 34 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 slow | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 hear | punct |
| 36 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hurled | conj |
| 37 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 counsel | nmod:poss |
| 38 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 hear | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 terms | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 terms | cc |
| 41 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 terms | nmod:poss |
| 42 | terms | term | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hurled | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hurled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurl | past | Fergus | Fergus's spear | that recreant | my terms obl | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent spear=Theme against recreant=Destination | ||
| 2 | slay | past | Fergus not said here | Fergus | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 3 | continue | past | Hundreds | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | perish | present · perfect · passive | Our best | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | is | present | our march | now | warriors obl; slow property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | hear | infinitive | Fergus not said here | my counsel | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer counsel=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | term | my | nom term «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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