The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 26
She whose bright face hath frosted with death’s white Full four score faces of war-breathing men Sent to that Ford successive!
What happens: frost, breathe, send · To what, where: Firbolg, breathing men, Ford successive
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: 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 frosted | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 4 face | nmod:poss |
| 3 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 face | amod |
| 4 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 frosted | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | hath | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 frosted | aux:pass |
| 6 | frosted | frost | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 white | case |
| 8 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 white | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 death | case |
| 10 | white | white | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 frosted | obl |
| 11 | Full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 faces | amod |
| 12 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 faces | nummod |
| 13 | score | score | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 faces | compound |
| 14 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 frosted | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 men | case |
| 16 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 breathing | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 war | punct |
| 18 | breathing | breathe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 men | amod |
| 19 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 faces | nmod |
| 20 | Sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 men | acl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 successive | case |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 successive | nsubj |
| 23 | Ford | Ford | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 successive | compound |
| 24 | successive | successive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Sent | obl |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 frosted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frost | present · passive | Firbolg | with death's white; bright face nsubj:pass; Full four score faces of breathing men obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | breathe | gerund | war compound | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | send | participle | breathing men not said here | Ford successive that | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to successive=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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