The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 21
O’er-awed though wroth The queen despatched in statelier embassage Three warriors, and three ollambs, and three bards: With reverence they addressed him.
Who acts: bards · What happens: awe, despatch, address · To what, where: awed wroth queen, statelier embassage, reverence, Cuchullain
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 (bards), 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 | O’er | O'er | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 awed | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 O’er | punct |
| 3 | awed | awe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 queen | amod |
| 4 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 5 wroth | mark |
| 5 | wroth | wroth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 queen | amod |
| 6 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 queen | det |
| 7 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | despatched | despatch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 queen | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 embassage | case |
| 10 | statelier | stately | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 embassage | amod |
| 11 | embassage | embassage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 despatched | obl |
| 12 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 warriors | nummod |
| 13 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 despatched | obl:agent |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ollambs | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 ollambs | cc |
| 16 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 ollambs | nummod |
| 17 | ollambs | ollamb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 warriors | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 bards | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 bards | cc |
| 20 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 bards | nummod |
| 21 | bards | bard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 queen | conj |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 reverence | punct |
| 23 | With | with | ADP | _ | 24 reverence | case |
| 24 | reverence | reverence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 queen | conj |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 addressed | nsubj |
| 26 | addressed | address | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 reverence | acl:relcl |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 addressed | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 queen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awe | participle | O’er compound | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | despatch | participle | the awed wroth queen and three bards and reverence not said here | statelier embassage | Three warriors and three ollambs obl:agent | tree rules | |||
| 3 | address | past | bards = bard | reverence not said here | Cuchullain | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination |
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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