The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 222
The sea-girt warrioress That honoured few men honoured us alike: We ate together of the self-same dish: We couched together ’neath the self-same shield: Now living man I stand, and he lies dead!’
Who acts: sea, That, few men, We, I, man · What happens: girt, honour, eat, couch, live, stand · To what, where: warrioress, us, living man
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 (sea, That, few men, We), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sea | det |
| 2 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 girt | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 girt | punct |
| 4 | girt | girt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | warrioress | warrioress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 girt | obj |
| 6 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 honoured | nsubj |
| 7 | honoured | honour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 girt | advcl |
| 8 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 men | amod |
| 9 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 honoured | nsubj |
| 10 | honoured | honour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 honoured | ccomp |
| 11 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 honoured | obj |
| 12 | alike | alike | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 honoured | xcomp |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 ate | punct |
| 14 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 ate | nsubj |
| 15 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 girt | parataxis |
| 16 | together | together | ADV | _ | 15 ate | advmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 dish | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 dish | det |
| 19 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 same | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 self | punct |
| 21 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 dish | amod |
| 22 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ate | obl |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 couched | punct |
| 24 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 couched | nsubj |
| 25 | couched | couch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 ate | conj |
| 26 | together | together | ADV | _ | 25 couched | advmod |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 33 shield | punct |
| 28 | neath | neath | ADP | _ | 33 shield | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 shield | det |
| 30 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 same | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 self | punct |
| 32 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 shield | amod |
| 33 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 couched | parataxis |
| 34 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 37 man | punct |
| 35 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 36 living | advmod |
| 36 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 37 man | amod |
| 37 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 shield | appos |
| 38 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 stand | nsubj |
| 39 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 man | acl:relcl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 lies | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 lies | cc |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 lies | nsubj |
| 43 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 girt | conj |
| 44 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 lies | xcomp |
| 45 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 girt | punct |
| 46 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 girt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | girt | infinitive | the sea | warrioress | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | honour | past | That | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | honour | past | few men | us | alike property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | eat | past | We | of the same dish; together property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of dish=Source | ||||
| 5 | couch | past | We | the same shield parataxis; together property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | live | gerund | now | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | stand | present | I | living man not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | lie | present | man | dead property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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