The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 105
Then cried Ferdīa, stationed where huge trees Shut out unwelcome vision: ‘For a bribe Thou seest these portents, singing of my death!’
Who acts: huge trees, Thou, my · What happens: cry, station, shut out, see, sing, die · To what, where: unwelcome vision, portents
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (huge trees, Thou, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 cried | advmod |
| 2 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Ferdīa | Ferdīa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 cried | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 stationed | punct |
| 5 | stationed | station | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 cried | conj |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 Shut | advmod |
| 7 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 trees | amod |
| 8 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 Shut | nsubj |
| 9 | Shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 stationed | advcl |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 Shut | compound:prt |
| 11 | unwelcome | unwelcome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 vision | amod |
| 12 | vision | vision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Shut | obj |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 seest | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 seest | punct |
| 15 | For | for | ADP | _ | 17 bribe | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 bribe | det |
| 17 | bribe | bribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 seest | obl |
| 18 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 seest | nsubj |
| 19 | seest | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 cried | parataxis |
| 20 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 21 portents | det |
| 21 | portents | portent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 seest | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 singing | punct |
| 23 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 seest | advcl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 death | case |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 death | nmod:poss |
| 26 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 singing | obl |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 cried | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | then | Ferdīa flat | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | station | participle | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | shut out | participle | huge trees | unwelcome vision | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent vision=Patient | ||||
| 4 | see | present | Thou | this portents | for a bribe | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer portent=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | sing speech: express | gerund | Thou not said here | of my death | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | die | my | nom death «event intransitive»: 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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