The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 124
Son of the Gael! long centuries since, thy race Trampled my race:--their vengeance hour is near; I bid thee to depart!’
Who acts: race, vengeance hour, I, thy, my · What happens: trample, be, bid, depart, race · To what, where: race, thee
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 (race, vengeance hour, I, thy), 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 | Son | Son | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 centuries | nmod:poss |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Gael | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Gael | det |
| 4 | Gael | Gael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Son | nmod |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Son | punct |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 centuries | amod |
| 7 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 since | nsubj |
| 8 | since | since | ADV | _ | 12 Trampled | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 since | punct |
| 10 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 race | nmod:poss |
| 11 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Trampled | nsubj |
| 12 | Trampled | trample | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 race | nmod:poss |
| 14 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Trampled | obj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 Trampled | punct |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 Trampled | punct |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 hour | nmod:poss |
| 18 | vengeance | vengeance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hour | compound |
| 19 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 near | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 near | cop |
| 21 | near | near | ADV | _ | 12 Trampled | advmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 bid | punct |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 bid | nsubj |
| 24 | bid | bid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 Trampled | conj |
| 25 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 24 bid | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 depart | mark |
| 27 | depart | depart | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 bid | xcomp |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 Trampled | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 Trampled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trample | participle | thy race | my race | since property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | spears's vengeance hour | near property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bid | past | I | thee | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | depart | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | race | thy | nom race «event intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | race | my | nom race «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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