The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 182
That tumult scared The horses of the host of Meave that brake From war-car or the tethering rope, and spread Ruin around.
Who acts: tumult, host · What happens: scare, break, tether, spread around · To what, where: horses, Ruin
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 (tumult, host), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 tumult | det |
| 2 | tumult | tumult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 scared | nsubj |
| 3 | scared | scare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 horses | det |
| 5 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 scared | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 host | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 host | det |
| 8 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 horses | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Meave | case |
| 10 | Meave | Meave | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 host | nmod |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 brake | nsubj |
| 12 | brake | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 host | acl:relcl |
| 13 | From | from | ADP | _ | 16 car | case |
| 14 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 car | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 war | punct |
| 16 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 brake | obl |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 rope | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 rope | det |
| 19 | tethering | tether | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 rope | amod |
| 20 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 car | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 spread | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 spread | cc |
| 23 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 scared | conj |
| 24 | Ruin | Ruin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 spread | obj |
| 25 | around | around | ADV | _ | 23 spread | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 scared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scare | past | that tumult | the horses of the host of Meave | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus horse=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | break | present | the host of Meave | from war car or the tethering rope | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from car=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | tether | gerund | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | spread around | past | that tumult not said here | Ruin | around property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ruin=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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