The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 109
Oft with sudden spasm She strove to shake that viper from her breast Which sucked its life-blood.
Who acts: Vanity, breast · What happens: strive, shake, suck · To what, where: sudden spasm, viper, breast, life blood
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: who acts (Vanity, breast), 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 | Oft | oft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 spasm | case |
| 3 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 spasm | amod |
| 4 | spasm | spasm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Oft | obl |
| 5 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 strove | nsubj |
| 6 | strove | strive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spasm | acl:relcl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 shake | mark |
| 8 | shake | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 strove | xcomp |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 viper | det |
| 10 | viper | viper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shake | obj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 breast | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 breast | nmod:poss |
| 13 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shake | obl |
| 14 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 sucked | nsubj |
| 15 | sucked | suck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 breast | acl:relcl |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 blood | nmod:poss |
| 17 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 blood | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 life | punct |
| 19 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sucked | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oft | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strive | past | Vanity | sudden spasm not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shake | to-infinitive | Vanity not said here | that viper | Vanity's breast | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent viper=Theme from breast=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | suck | past | Vanity's breast | breast's life blood | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent blood=Theme |
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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