The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 64
In Erin’s earlier age there reigned two kings: Each had a swineherd who, through magic power, Assumed what form he would of shapes that live In heaven, or earth, or sea.
Who acts: shapes · What happens: reign, have, assume, form, live · To what, where: two kings, earlier age, swineherd, magic power, earth, heaven
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 (shapes), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 age | case |
| 2 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 age | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 Erin | case |
| 4 | earlier | early | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 age | amod |
| 5 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reigned | obl |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 reigned | advmod |
| 7 | reigned | reign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 kings | nummod |
| 9 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 reigned | obj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 11 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 had | advmod |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 reigned | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 swineherd | det |
| 14 | swineherd | swineherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 power | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 power | punct |
| 17 | through | through | ADP | _ | 19 power | case |
| 18 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 power | amod |
| 19 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 swineherd | acl:relcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Assumed | punct |
| 21 | Assumed | assume | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 power | acl |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 form | nsubj |
| 23 | form | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 Assumed | parataxis |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 would | nsubj |
| 25 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 form | advcl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 shapes | case |
| 27 | shapes | shape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 would | obl |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 live | nsubj |
| 29 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 shapes | acl:relcl |
| 30 | In | in | ADP | _ | 31 heaven | case |
| 31 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 live | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 earth | punct |
| 33 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 34 earth | cc |
| 34 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 form | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 sea | punct |
| 36 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 37 sea | cc |
| 37 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 earth | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 reigned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reign | past | two kings | there | in Erin's earlier age | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | past | a swineherd through magic power a swineherd through magic power a swineherd | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swineherd=Patient | |||||
| 3 | assume | participle | magic power a swineherd through magic power a swineherd through magic power not said here | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | form | present | earth or sea | what nsubj | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | live | present | shapes | heaven | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in heaven=Location |
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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