The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 83
Hides of oxen seven Sustained the brazen bosses of his shield; And forth he stretched a hand that might have grasped A tiger’s throat and choked him.
Who acts: Hides, Uladh · What happens: sustain, stretch, grasp, choke · To what, where: brazen bosses, hand, Uladh
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 (Hides, Uladh), 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 | Hides | hide | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 Sustained | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 oxen | case |
| 3 | oxen | ox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Hides | nmod |
| 4 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 Sustained | nsubj |
| 5 | Sustained | sustain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bosses | det |
| 7 | brazen | brazen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bosses | amod |
| 8 | bosses | boss | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 Sustained | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 shield | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 shield | nmod:poss |
| 11 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bosses | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 stretched | punct |
| 13 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 forth | cc |
| 14 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 16 stretched | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 stretched | nsubj |
| 16 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Sustained | parataxis |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 hand | det |
| 18 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stretched | obj |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 grasped | obj |
| 20 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 grasped | aux |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 grasped | aux |
| 22 | grasped | grasp | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 hand | acl:relcl |
| 23 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 tiger | det |
| 24 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 throat | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 tiger | case |
| 26 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 grasped | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 choked | cc |
| 28 | choked | choke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 stretched | conj |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 choked | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Sustained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sustain | past | Hides of oxen | the brazen bosses of Uladh's shield | seven nsubj | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent boss=Theme | |||
| 2 | stretch | past | Uladh | a hand | forth property | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | |||
| 3 | grasp | might · perfect | a hand | a tiger's throat obj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | choke | past | Uladh not said here | Uladh | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Destination |
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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