The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 29
In mantle blue Clasped by a silver torque, and silver belt Enringed with silver rings innumerable That evening from his tent Ferdīa strode With large attendance.
Who acts: silver belt, Ferdīa · What happens: clasp, ring, stride · To what, where: mantle blue, tent
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 (silver belt, Ferdīa), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 blue | case |
| 2 | mantle | mantle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blue | compound |
| 3 | blue | blue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rings | obl |
| 4 | Clasped | clasp | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 blue | acl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 torque | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 torque | det |
| 7 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 torque | amod |
| 8 | torque | torque | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Clasped | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rings | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 rings | cc |
| 11 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 belt | amod |
| 12 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rings | nsubj |
| 13 | Enringed | enringed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 belt | amod |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 silver | case |
| 15 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Enringed | obl |
| 16 | rings | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | innumerable | innumerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 evening | amod |
| 18 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 evening | det |
| 19 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rings | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 tent | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 tent | nmod:poss |
| 22 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rings | obl |
| 23 | Ferdīa | Ferdīa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 strode | nsubj |
| 24 | strode | stride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 tent | acl:relcl |
| 25 | With | with | ADP | _ | 27 attendance | case |
| 26 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 attendance | amod |
| 27 | attendance | attendance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 strode | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 rings | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clasp | participle | mantle blue not said here | by a silver torque | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | ring | present | silver belt | mantle blue | evening | from bribe's tent | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in blue=Location | ||
| 3 | stride | past | Ferdīa | bribe's tent not said here | with large attendance | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tent=Trajectory |
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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