The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 119
Then spake the queen; ‘The hand of yonder chief Sustains our battle’s balance.
Who acts: you, hand, our, battle · What happens: speak, sustain, battle, balance · To what, where: queen, balance · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, hand, our, battle), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 spake | advmod |
| 2 | spake | speak | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 queen | det |
| 4 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spake | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 Sustains | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 Sustains | punct |
| 7 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hand | det |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Sustains | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 chief | case |
| 10 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 11 chief | advmod |
| 11 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hand | nmod |
| 12 | Sustains | sustain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 spake | conj |
| 13 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 battle | nmod:poss |
| 14 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 balance | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 battle | case |
| 16 | balance | balance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Sustains | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | imperative | you not said here | the queen | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sustain | present | the hand of chief | our battle's balance | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent balance=Theme | ||||
| 3 | battle | our | nom battle «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | balance | our battle | nom balance «state intransitive»: 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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