The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 156
So spake she; and the queen obeyed her hest: She flung that rumour forth; and all who heard, Heart-stricken now, believed it.
Who acts: you, queen · What happens: speak, obey, fling, hear, believe · To what, where: Emania, hest, rumour · 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, queen), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 spake | advmod |
| 2 | spake | speak | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 spake | obj |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 obeyed | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 obeyed | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 queen | det |
| 7 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 obeyed | nsubj |
| 8 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 spake | parataxis |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hest | nmod:poss |
| 10 | hest | hest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 obeyed | obj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 flung | punct |
| 12 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 flung | nsubj |
| 13 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 obeyed | conj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 rumour | mark |
| 15 | rumour | rumour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 flung | obj |
| 16 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 13 flung | advmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 heard | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 heard | cc |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 heard | advmod |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 heard | nsubj |
| 21 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 spake | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 stricken | punct |
| 23 | Heart | Heart | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 stricken | nsubj |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 stricken | punct |
| 25 | stricken | stricken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 heard | parataxis |
| 26 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 stricken | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 believed | punct |
| 28 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 heard | conj |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 believed | obj |
| 30 | . | . | 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 | Emania | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | obey | past | the queen | Emania's hest | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hest=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fling | past | queen | rumour | forth property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rumour=Theme | |||
| 4 | hear | past | who nsubj | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | believe | past | rumour | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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