The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 64
But on her ear Rolled forth that hour the lowings of that Bull Cuailgné’s Donn: for he from Daré’s house Had heard, though far, the clamours of the host, And answered rage with rage.
Who acts: Donn, host · What happens: roll, hear, answer, clamour · To what, where: clamours, rage, Rolled hour
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 (Donn, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 hour | cc |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 ear | case |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 ear | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hour | obl |
| 5 | Rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 hour | amod |
| 6 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 5 Rolled | advmod |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 hour | det |
| 8 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lowings | det |
| 10 | lowings | lowing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hour | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Donn | case |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 Donn | nsubj |
| 13 | Bull | Bull | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Cuailgné | compound |
| 14 | Cuailgné | Cuailgné | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Donn | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 Cuailgné | case |
| 16 | Donn | Donn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 lowings | nmod |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 heard | punct |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 heard | case |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 heard | nsubj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 house | case |
| 21 | Daré | Daré | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 house | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 Daré | case |
| 23 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 he | nmod |
| 24 | Had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 heard | aux |
| 25 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 hour | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 far | punct |
| 27 | though | though | ADV | _ | 28 far | advmod |
| 28 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 heard | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 clamours | punct |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 clamours | det |
| 31 | clamours | clamour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 heard | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 host | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 host | det |
| 34 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 clamours | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 answered | punct |
| 36 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 answered | cc |
| 37 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 heard | parataxis |
| 38 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 answered | obj |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 rage | case |
| 40 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 rage | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 hour | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll | participle | forth property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hear | past · perfect | Donn | the clamours of the host | far property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | rage | with rage | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent rage=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | clamour | the host | nom clamour «communication intransitive»: of=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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