The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 93
In regal pomp The host confederate followed, keen to watch With Meave, and Ailill, and with Finobar, All passions of a fight unmatched till then; While clustered here and there, on rock or mound, Minstrel and food-purveyor groom and leech With healing herbs, and charms.
Who acts: host, passions · What happens: confederate, follow, watch, unmatch, cluster, leech · To what, where: charms, regal pomp
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 (host, passions), 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 pomp | case |
| 2 | regal | regal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pomp | amod |
| 3 | pomp | pomp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 confederate | obl |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 host | det |
| 5 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 confederate | nsubj |
| 6 | confederate | confederate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 confederate | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 keen | punct |
| 9 | keen | keen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 confederate | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 watch | mark |
| 11 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 keen | xcomp |
| 12 | With | with | ADP | _ | 13 Meave | case |
| 13 | Meave | Meave | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 watch | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Ailill | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Ailill | cc |
| 16 | Ailill | Ailill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Meave | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 unmatched | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 unmatched | cc |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 Finobar | case |
| 20 | Finobar | Finobar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 unmatched | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Finobar | punct |
| 22 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 passions | det |
| 23 | passions | passion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 unmatched | nsubj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 fight | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 fight | det |
| 26 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 passions | nmod |
| 27 | unmatched | unmatch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 confederate | conj |
| 28 | till | till | ADP | _ | 29 then | case |
| 29 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 unmatched | obl |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 clustered | punct |
| 31 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 32 clustered | mark |
| 32 | clustered | cluster | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 confederate | parataxis |
| 33 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 clustered | advmod |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 there | cc |
| 35 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 33 here | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 rock | punct |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 rock | case |
| 38 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 clustered | parataxis |
| 39 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 40 mound | cc |
| 40 | mound | mound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 rock | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 Minstrel | punct |
| 42 | Minstrel | Minstrel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 rock | appos |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 groom | cc |
| 44 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 purveyor | compound |
| 45 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 44 food | punct |
| 46 | purveyor | purveyor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 groom | compound |
| 47 | groom | groom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 Minstrel | conj |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 leech | cc |
| 49 | leech | leech | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 confederate | conj |
| 50 | With | with | ADP | _ | 52 herbs | case |
| 51 | healing | healing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 herbs | compound |
| 52 | herbs | herb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 leech | obl |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 charms | punct |
| 54 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 charms | cc |
| 55 | charms | charm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 confederate | obl |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 confederate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | confederate | infinitive | the host | charms | regal pomp | tree rules | |||
| 2 | follow | participle | the host not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | watch | to-infinitive | the host not said here | with Meave and Ailill | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | unmatch | participle | all passions of a fight | with Finobar | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | cluster | participle | here; there | rock or mound parataxis | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | leech | infinitive | the host not said here | with healing herbs | tree rules |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/13/93/