The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 202
On their head the curse descend Who sent thee to thy death!
Who acts: curse, thy · What happens: descend, send, die · To what, where: head, thee, death
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 (curse, 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 head | case |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 head | nmod:poss |
| 3 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 descend | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 curse | det |
| 5 | curse | curse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 descend | nsubj |
| 6 | descend | descend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 sent | nsubj |
| 8 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 descend | ccomp |
| 9 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 sent | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 death | case |
| 11 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 death | nmod:poss |
| 12 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sent | obl |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 descend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | descend | present | the curse | Meave's head | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | send | past | thee | thy death | Who nsubj | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thou=Theme to death=Destination | |||
| 3 | die | thy | 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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