The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 17
King Daré’s sons had fled; But in the gate-way stood their old, grey sire, Alone, and slew the first that entrance made: The rest dashed in upon him, and he died.
Who acts: sons, first, rest · What happens: flee, stand, slay, make, dash, die · To what, where: old grey sire, gate way
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 (sons, first, rest), 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 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sons | nmod:poss |
| 2 | Daré | Daré | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 King | flat |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 1 King | case |
| 4 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fled | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fled | aux |
| 6 | fled | flee | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 stood | punct |
| 8 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 stood | cc |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 way | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 way | det |
| 11 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 way | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 gate | punct |
| 13 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stood | obl |
| 14 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fled | conj |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 sire | nmod:poss |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 sire | amod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 old | punct |
| 18 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 sire | amod |
| 19 | sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stood | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Alone | punct |
| 21 | Alone | alone | ADV | _ | 14 stood | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 slew | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 slew | cc |
| 24 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 stood | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 first | det |
| 26 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 29 made | nsubj |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 made | nsubj |
| 28 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 made | nsubj |
| 29 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 slew | ccomp |
| 30 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 33 dashed | punct |
| 31 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 rest | det |
| 32 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 dashed | nsubj |
| 33 | dashed | dash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 fled | conj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 him | case |
| 35 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 36 him | case |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 dashed | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 died | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 died | cc |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 died | nsubj |
| 40 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fled | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flee | past · perfect | King's sons | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stand | past | King's sons not said here | sons's old grey sire | the gate way | alone property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sire=Theme in way=Destination | ||
| 3 | slay | past | King's sons not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | make | past | the first | that nsubj; entrance nsubj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 5 | dash | participle | the rest | in entrance | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in he=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | die | past | rest | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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