The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 85
He pledged his word: The battle day was fixed; the morrow morn: She took that glittering torque whose splendours clasped Her mantle red; with it his mantle bound: Then with attendance to his tent he passed.
Who acts: Ailill, scorn, glittering torque · What happens: pledge, fix, take, glitter, clasp, mantle · To what, where: word, battle day, mantle bound, 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 (Ailill, scorn, glittering torque), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 pledged | nsubj |
| 2 | pledged | pledge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 word | nmod:poss |
| 4 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pledged | obj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 fixed | punct |
| 6 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 day | det |
| 7 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 day | compound |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fixed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 fixed | aux:pass |
| 10 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 pledged | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 morn | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 morn | det |
| 13 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 morn | compound |
| 14 | morn | morn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pledged | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 took | punct |
| 16 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 took | nsubj |
| 17 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 pledged | conj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 clasped | mark |
| 19 | glittering | glitter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 torque | amod |
| 20 | torque | torque | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 clasped | nsubj |
| 21 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 22 splendours | nmod:poss |
| 22 | splendours | splendour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 torque | conj |
| 23 | clasped | clasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 took | advcl |
| 24 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 mantle | nmod:poss |
| 25 | mantle | mantle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 clasped | xcomp |
| 26 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 mantle | xcomp |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 took | punct |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 it | case |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 took | obl |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 bound | nmod:poss |
| 31 | mantle | mantle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 bound | compound |
| 32 | bound | bound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 took | obj |
| 33 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 36 attendance | punct |
| 34 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 36 attendance | advmod |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 attendance | case |
| 36 | attendance | attendance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 bound | appos |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 tent | case |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 tent | nmod:poss |
| 39 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 attendance | nmod |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 passed | nsubj |
| 41 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 tent | acl:relcl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pledged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pledge | past | Ailill | Ailill's word | the morrow morn obl | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent word=Theme | |||
| 2 | fix | past · passive | the battle day | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | take | past | scorn | Ailill's mantle bound | with torque | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bound=Theme | |||
| 4 | glitter | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | clasp | past | glittering torque and glittering torque and glittering torque's splendours's splendours | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | mantle | infinitive | glittering torque and glittering torque and glittering torque's splendours's splendours not said here | scorn nmod:poss; red property | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | pass | past | Ailill | Ailill's tent not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tent=Trajectory | ||||
| 8 | word | Ailill | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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