The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 181
To these in dread response Thundered far off from sea-caves billow-beat And halls rock-vaulted ’neath the eternal hills, That race Tuatha, giant once, long since To pigmy changed, that forge from molten ores For aye their clanging weapons, shield or spear, On stony anvils, waiting still their day Of vengeance on the Gael.
Who acts: pigmy, that · What happens: thunder, vault, change, forge, wait · To what, where: dread response, sea caves, rock, race Tuatha, molten ores
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 (pigmy, that), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 2 these | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 response | case |
| 4 | dread | dread | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 response | amod |
| 5 | response | response | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 these | nmod |
| 6 | Thundered | thunder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 response | acl |
| 7 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 off | advmod |
| 8 | off | off | ADV | _ | 6 Thundered | advmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 caves | case |
| 10 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 caves | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 sea | punct |
| 12 | caves | cave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 Thundered | obl |
| 13 | billow | billow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 beat | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 billow | punct |
| 15 | beat | beat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 response | conj |
| 16 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 halls | cc |
| 17 | halls | hall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 response | conj |
| 18 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 response | conj |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 rock | punct |
| 20 | vaulted | vault | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 rock | acl |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 vaulted | punct |
| 22 | neath | neath | ADP | _ | 25 hills | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 hills | det |
| 24 | eternal | eternal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hills | compound |
| 25 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 vaulted | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Tuatha | punct |
| 27 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 race | det |
| 28 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 Tuatha | compound |
| 29 | Tuatha | Tuatha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 hills | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 giant | punct |
| 31 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Tuatha | amod |
| 32 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 31 giant | advmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 changed | punct |
| 34 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 38 changed | advmod |
| 35 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 38 changed | mark |
| 36 | To | to | ADP | _ | 37 pigmy | case |
| 37 | pigmy | pigmy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 changed | nsubj |
| 38 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 Tuatha | acl:relcl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 forge | punct |
| 40 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 forge | nsubj |
| 41 | forge | forge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 Tuatha | conj |
| 42 | from | from | ADP | _ | 44 ores | case |
| 43 | molten | molten | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 ores | amod |
| 44 | ores | ore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 forge | obl |
| 45 | For | for | ADP | _ | 49 weapons | case |
| 46 | aye | aye | DET | PronType=Tot | 49 weapons | det:predet |
| 47 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 weapons | nmod:poss |
| 48 | clanging | clanging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 weapons | compound |
| 49 | weapons | weapon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 ores | nmod |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 shield | punct |
| 51 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 weapons | conj |
| 52 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 53 spear | cc |
| 53 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 weapons | conj |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 anvils | punct |
| 55 | On | on | ADP | _ | 57 anvils | case |
| 56 | stony | stony | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 57 anvils | amod |
| 57 | anvils | anvil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 ores | conj |
| 58 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 59 waiting | punct |
| 59 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 41 forge | advcl |
| 60 | still | still | ADV | _ | 62 day | advmod |
| 61 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 62 day | nmod:poss |
| 62 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 waiting | obl |
| 63 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 64 vengeance | case |
| 64 | vengeance | vengeance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 62 day | nmod |
| 65 | on | on | ADP | _ | 67 Gael | case |
| 66 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 67 Gael | det |
| 67 | Gael | Gael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 64 vengeance | nmod |
| 68 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 response | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thunder | participle | dread response and billow beat and halls and rock not said here | sea caves | off property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | vault | participle | rock not said here | neath the eternal hills race Tuatha | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | change | past | pigmy | race Tuatha not said here | long property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tuatha=Patient | |||
| 4 | forge | present | that | molten ores for ores's clanging weapons and shield or spear and stony anvils | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent from ore=Material | ||||
| 5 | wait | gerund | that not said here | day | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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