The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 215
Twas thou, ’twas thou, not I, that slew’st this man’-- He dashed it on the rock, and with his heel Smote it to fragments.
Who acts: Twas · What happens: dash, smite · To what, where: beam
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 (Twas), 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 | Twas | twa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 dashed | nsubj |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 1 Twas | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Twas | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 twas | punct |
| 5 | twas | twa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Twas | conj |
| 6 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 twas | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 I | punct |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 I | advmod |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 thou | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 slew’st | punct |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 slew’st | nsubj |
| 12 | slew’st | slew' | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 twas | nmod |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 man | det |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 slew’st | appos |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 man | punct |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 dashed | punct |
| 17 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 dashed | nsubj |
| 18 | dashed | dash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 dashed | obj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 rock | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 rock | det |
| 22 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dashed | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Smote | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 Smote | cc |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 heel | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 heel | nmod:poss |
| 27 | heel | heel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 Smote | obl |
| 28 | Smote | smite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 dashed | conj |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 Smote | obj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 fragments | case |
| 31 | fragments | fragment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 Smote | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 dashed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dash | past | Twas thou and twas thou I slew’st that | beam | on the rock; man nsubj | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent it=Instrument on rock=Patient | |||
| 2 | smite | past | Twas thou and twas thou I slew’st that not said here | beam | with man's heel; to fragments result | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with heel=Instrument to fragment=Result |
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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