The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 36
Swiftly meanwhile On marched the host confederate: bootless speed; Since ever one day’s progress by the next Was cancelled; tortuous mind made tortuous course Now bent awry to capture spoil, anon To avenge some private wrong.
Who acts: tortuous mind, one day · What happens: march, cancel, make, bend, capture, avenge · To what, where: host confederate, next, tortuous course, spoil
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 (tortuous mind, one day), 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 | Swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 4 marched | advmod |
| 2 | meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 4 marched | advmod |
| 3 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 4 marched | mark |
| 4 | marched | march | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 confederate | det |
| 6 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 confederate | compound |
| 7 | confederate | confederate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 marched | obj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 speed | punct |
| 9 | bootless | bootless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 speed | amod |
| 10 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 confederate | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 progress | punct |
| 12 | Since | since | ADP | _ | 17 progress | case |
| 13 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 14 one | advmod |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 day | nummod |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 progress | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 day | case |
| 17 | progress | progress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 marched | obl |
| 18 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 22 cancelled | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 cancelled | det |
| 20 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 cancelled | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | Was | Be | PROPN | Number=Plur | 22 cancelled | aux:pass |
| 22 | cancelled | cancel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 marched | advcl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 made | punct |
| 24 | tortuous | tortuous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 mind | amod |
| 25 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 made | nsubj |
| 26 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 marched | conj |
| 27 | tortuous | tortuous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 course | amod |
| 28 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 made | obj |
| 29 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 bent | advmod |
| 30 | bent | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 made | advcl |
| 31 | awry | awry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 bent | xcomp |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 capture | mark |
| 33 | capture | capture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 awry | xcomp |
| 34 | spoil | spoil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 capture | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 anon | punct |
| 36 | anon | anon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 spoil | conj |
| 37 | To | to | PART | _ | 38 avenge | mark |
| 38 | avenge | avenge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 capture | advcl |
| 39 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 41 wrong | nsubj |
| 40 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 wrong | amod |
| 41 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 avenge | ccomp |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 marched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | march | past | the host confederate and bootless speed | since one day's progress | meanwhile, swiftly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme confederate=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | cancel | passive | next | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | make | past | tortuous mind | tortuous course | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset course=Product | ||||
| 4 | bend | past | tortuous mind not said here | now | awry property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | capture | to-infinitive | tortuous mind not said here | spoil and anon | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spoil=Theme | ||||
| 6 | avenge | to-infinitive | tortuous mind not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | progress | one day | nom progress «act 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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