The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 35
Well stricken harp Gladdened that festive throng; and many a tale, The rage of hunger lessening by degrees, Ailill recounted of the heroic past, When, youthful yet, he ranged ’mid friends and foes Such men as breathed no longer.
Who acts: rage, Ailill, hunger · What happens: gladden, lessen, recount, range ', breathe, rage · To what, where: stricken harp, mid friends
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 (rage, Ailill, hunger), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 3 harp | discourse |
| 2 | stricken | stricken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 harp | amod |
| 3 | harp | harp | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | Gladdened | gladden | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 harp | acl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 throng | mark |
| 6 | festive | festive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 throng | amod |
| 7 | throng | throng | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Gladdened | advcl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 tale | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 tale | cc |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tale | amod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tale | det |
| 12 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 harp | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 rage | punct |
| 14 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 rage | det |
| 15 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tale | appos |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 hunger | case |
| 17 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rage | nmod |
| 18 | lessening | lessen | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 rage | acl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 degrees | case |
| 20 | degrees | degree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 lessening | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 recounted | punct |
| 22 | Ailill | Ailill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 recounted | nsubj |
| 23 | recounted | recount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 tale | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 past | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 past | det |
| 26 | heroic | heroic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 past | amod |
| 27 | past | past | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 recounted | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 youthful | punct |
| 29 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 31 youthful | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 youthful | punct |
| 31 | youthful | youthful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tale | parataxis |
| 32 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 31 youthful | advmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 ranged | punct |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 ranged | nsubj |
| 35 | ranged | range | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 youthful | conj |
| 36 | ’ | ' | ADP | _ | 35 ranged | compound:prt |
| 37 | mid | mid | ADJ | _ | 38 friends | amod |
| 38 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 ranged | obj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 foes | cc |
| 40 | foes | foe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 friends | conj |
| 41 | Such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 men | amod |
| 42 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 friends | conj |
| 43 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 44 breathed | mark |
| 44 | breathed | breathe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 ranged | advcl |
| 45 | no | no | ADV | _ | 46 longer | advmod |
| 46 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 44 breathed | advmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 harp | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gladden | participle | stricken harp and a many tale not said here | festive throng advcl | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | lessen | gerund | the rage of hunger not said here | by degrees | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | recount speech: other | past | Ailill | of the heroic past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | range ' | past | Ailill | mid friends and foes and Such men | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location friend=Theme | ||||
| 5 | breathe | participle | Ailill not said here | long property | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | rage | hunger | nom rage «feeling intransitive»: of=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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