The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 78
Direful his mien; Massive his stride; his body brawny and huge; For, though of Gaelic race, the stock of Ir, With him was mingled giant blood of old, Wild blood of Nemedh’s brood that hurled sea rocks ’Gainst the Fomorian.
Who acts: brood, morn · What happens: mingle, hurl, stride, stock · To what, where: morn, sea rocks, Direful mien, Ir
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 (brood, morn), 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 | Direful | Direful | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mien | compound |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 mien | nmod:poss |
| 3 | mien | mien | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 stride | punct |
| 5 | Massive | massive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stride | amod |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 stride | nmod:poss |
| 7 | stride | stride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mien | conj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 body | punct |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 body | nmod:poss |
| 10 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mien | conj |
| 11 | brawny | brawny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 body | amod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 huge | cc |
| 13 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 brawny | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 race | punct |
| 15 | For | for | ADP | _ | 20 race | case |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 race | punct |
| 17 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 20 race | mark |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 race | case |
| 19 | Gaelic | gaelic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 race | amod |
| 20 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mien | appos |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 stock | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 stock | det |
| 23 | stock | stock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 race | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Ir | case |
| 25 | Ir | Ir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 stock | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 mingled | punct |
| 27 | With | with | SCONJ | _ | 30 mingled | mark |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 mingled | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 mingled | aux:pass |
| 30 | mingled | mingle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 race | conj |
| 31 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 blood | amod |
| 32 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 mingled | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 blood | case |
| 34 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 blood | amod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 old | punct |
| 36 | Wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 blood | amod |
| 37 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 blood | nmod |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 brood | case |
| 39 | Nemedh | Nemedh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 brood | nmod:poss |
| 40 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 39 Nemedh | case |
| 41 | brood | brood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 blood | nmod |
| 42 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 hurled | nsubj |
| 43 | hurled | hurl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 brood | acl:relcl |
| 44 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 rocks | compound |
| 45 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 hurled | obj |
| 46 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 45 rocks | case |
| 47 | Gainst | Gainst | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 rocks | appos |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 Fomorian | det |
| 49 | Fomorian | Fomorian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 Gainst | flat |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mien | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mingle | past · passive | morn | giant blood of old Wild blood of Nemedh's brood obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hurl | past | Nemedh's brood | sea rocks | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Theme | ||||
| 4 | stride | morn | nom stride «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | stock | Ir | nom stock «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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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