The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 9
Meantime the queen, ere dawned that ninetieth morn, Mused, ill at ease; ‘Daily my people die, And many a stormy brow on me is bent:-- What if they turn on me like starving hounds That rend their huntsman?’
Who acts: Meantime queen, Daily people, people, That · What happens: dawn, muse, die, bend, turn, starve · To what, where: ninetieth morn, many, Meantime queen, hounds, huntsman
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 (Meantime queen, Daily people, people, That), 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 | Meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 queen | compound |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 queen | det |
| 3 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 dawned | punct |
| 5 | ere | ere | ADV | _ | 6 dawned | advmod |
| 6 | dawned | dawn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 queen | acl:relcl |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 morn | mark |
| 8 | ninetieth | ninetieth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 morn | compound |
| 9 | morn | morn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dawned | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Mused | punct |
| 11 | Mused | muse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 morn | acl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ill | punct |
| 13 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 morn | acl:relcl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 ease | case |
| 15 | ease | ease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ill | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 die | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 die | punct |
| 18 | Daily | daily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 people | amod |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 people | nmod:poss |
| 20 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 die | nsubj |
| 21 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 queen | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 bent | punct |
| 23 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 bent | cc |
| 24 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 bent | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 brow | det |
| 26 | stormy | stormy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 brow | amod |
| 27 | brow | brow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 bent | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 me | case |
| 29 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 brow | nmod |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 bent | aux:pass |
| 31 | bent | bend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 die | conj |
| 32 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 queen | punct |
| 33 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 37 turn | punct |
| 34 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 37 turn | obj |
| 35 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 37 turn | mark |
| 36 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 turn | nsubj |
| 37 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 queen | parataxis |
| 38 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 me | case |
| 39 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 turn | obl |
| 40 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 41 starving | mark |
| 41 | starving | starve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 37 turn | advcl |
| 42 | hounds | hound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 starving | obj |
| 43 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 44 rend | nsubj |
| 44 | rend | rend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 starving | parataxis |
| 45 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 huntsman | nmod:poss |
| 46 | huntsman | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 rend | obj |
| 47 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 queen | punct |
| 48 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 queen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dawn | participle | the Meantime queen not said here | ninetieth morn | ere property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | muse | participle | ninetieth morn not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | die | present | my Daily people | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | bend | present · passive | many | a stormy brow on me nsubj:pass | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: subject=Material | ||||
| 5 | turn | present | people | the Meantime queen | on me | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent what=Theme | |||
| 6 | starve | gerund | people not said here | hounds | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | rend | present | That | people's huntsman | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent huntsman=Patient |
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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