The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 101
Full many a chief Perished in bootless fight; full many an eye Turned on her, malcontent.
What happens: perish, turn · To what, where: Full many chief, bootless fight, full many eye
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 chief | amod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 chief | amod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 chief | det |
| 4 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | Perished | perish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 chief | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 fight | case |
| 7 | bootless | bootless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fight | amod |
| 8 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Perished | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 eye | punct |
| 10 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 eye | amod |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 eye | amod |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 eye | det |
| 13 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chief | conj |
| 14 | Turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 eye | acl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 Turned | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 malcontent | punct |
| 18 | malcontent | malcontent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chief | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 chief | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perish | participle | a Full many chief and a full many eye and malcontent not said here | bootless fight | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | turn | participle | a full many eye not said here | on chief | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on she=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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