The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 108
No stag-hound of the storm-swept hills: No watch-hound watching by a merchant’s store: The hound he is that tracks the steps of doom; The hound of realms o’er-run, and hosts that fly; The hound that laps the blood!’
Who acts: watch hound, madness, hosts, hound · What happens: sweep, watch, be, fly, lap, step · To what, where: blood, stag hound, doom
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 (watch hound, madness, hosts, hound), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 hound | det |
| 2 | stag | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hound | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 stag | punct |
| 4 | hound | hound | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 hills | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hills | det |
| 7 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 swept | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 storm | punct |
| 9 | swept | sweep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 hills | amod |
| 10 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hound | nmod |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 hound | punct |
| 12 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 hound | det |
| 13 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hound | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 watch | punct |
| 15 | hound | hound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hound | conj |
| 16 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 hound | acl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 store | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 merchant | det |
| 19 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 store | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 merchant | case |
| 21 | store | store | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 watching | obl |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 hound | punct |
| 23 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 hound | det |
| 24 | hound | hound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hound | appos |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 tracks | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 tracks | cop |
| 27 | that | that | ADP | _ | 28 tracks | case |
| 28 | tracks | track | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 hound | nmod |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 steps | det |
| 30 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 tracks | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 doom | case |
| 32 | doom | doom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 steps | nmod |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 hound | punct |
| 34 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 hound | det |
| 35 | hound | hound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hound | appos |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 realms | case |
| 37 | realms | realm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 hound | nmod |
| 38 | o’er | o'er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 run | compound |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 o’er | punct |
| 40 | run | run | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 realms | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 hosts | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 hosts | cc |
| 43 | hosts | host | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 hound | conj |
| 44 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 fly | nsubj |
| 45 | fly | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 hosts | acl:relcl |
| 46 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 48 hound | punct |
| 47 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 hound | det |
| 48 | hound | hound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 hound | conj |
| 49 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 50 laps | nsubj |
| 50 | laps | lap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 48 hound | acl:relcl |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 blood | det |
| 52 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 laps | obj |
| 53 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 35 hound | punct |
| 54 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 hound | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sweep | participle | storm compound | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | watch | gerund | no watch hound not said here | by a merchant's store | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by store=Location | ||||
| 3 | is | present | madness | that tracks; the steps of doom obj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fly | present | hosts | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | lap | present | the hound | the blood | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Patient | ||||
| 7 | step | doom | nom step «act 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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