The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 154
Three hours ere her death Thus to her mother spake that sentenced one; ‘Noise it among the host that grief for those Her countrymen--the Gael--who, near the Ford-- Ere yet that Firbolg shared the common fate, Fell by Cuchullain, snapped her thread of life.
Who acts: Three hours, mother spake, Firbolg, host, tent · What happens: ere, sentence, noise, share, snap, die · To what, where: death, one, spake, common fate, thread
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 (Three hours, mother spake, Firbolg, host), 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 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hours | nummod |
| 2 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ere | nsubj |
| 3 | ere | ere | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 death | nmod:poss |
| 5 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ere | obj |
| 6 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 10 spake | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 spake | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 spake | nmod:poss |
| 9 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spake | compound |
| 10 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ere | obl |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 sentenced | nsubj |
| 12 | sentenced | sentence | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 spake | acl:relcl |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 sentenced | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 Noise | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 Noise | punct |
| 16 | Noise | noise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ere | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 Noise | obj |
| 18 | among | among | ADP | _ | 20 host | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 host | det |
| 20 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Noise | obl |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 grief | det |
| 22 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 host | appos |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 countrymen | case |
| 24 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 26 countrymen | det |
| 25 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 countrymen | nmod:poss |
| 26 | countrymen | countryman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 grief | nmod |
| 27 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 29 Gael | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Gael | det |
| 29 | Gael | Gael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 host | appos |
| 30 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 50 snapped | punct |
| 31 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 50 snapped | nsubj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 who | punct |
| 33 | near | near | ADP | _ | 35 Ford | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Ford | det |
| 35 | Ford | Ford | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 who | nmod |
| 36 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 37 Ere | punct |
| 37 | Ere | Ere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Ford | conj |
| 38 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 31 who | advmod |
| 39 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 41 shared | mark |
| 40 | Firbolg | Firbolg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 shared | nsubj |
| 41 | shared | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 who | advcl |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 fate | det |
| 43 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 fate | amod |
| 44 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 shared | obj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 Fell | punct |
| 46 | Fell | Fell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 fate | appos |
| 47 | by | by | ADP | _ | 48 Cuchullain | case |
| 48 | Cuchullain | Cuchullain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 Fell | nmod |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 who | punct |
| 50 | snapped | snap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 host | acl:relcl |
| 51 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 thread | nmod:poss |
| 52 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 snapped | obj |
| 53 | of | of | ADP | _ | 54 life | case |
| 54 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 thread | nmod |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ere | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ere | past | Three hours | tent's death | to tent's mother spake | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sentence | past | tent's mother spake | one | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | noise | infinitive | Three hours not said here | spake = speak | among the host | tree rules | |||
| 4 | share | past | Firbolg | the common fate | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | snap | past | the host | tent's thread of life | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thread=Theme | ||||
| 6 | die | tent | nom death «event 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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