The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 65
Friendship eterne They pledged; then strove ten years, with hosts allied So huge that none remained to till the land.
Who acts: Friendship eterne, hosts, none · What happens: pledge, strive, ally, remain
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 (Friendship eterne, hosts, none), 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 | Friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 eterne | compound |
| 2 | eterne | eterne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pledged | nsubj |
| 3 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pledged | nsubj |
| 4 | pledged | pledge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 strove | punct |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 strove | advmod |
| 7 | strove | strive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pledged | conj |
| 8 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 years | nummod |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 strove | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 allied | punct |
| 11 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 13 allied | mark |
| 12 | hosts | host | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 allied | nsubj |
| 13 | allied | ally | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 strove | conj |
| 14 | So | so | ADV | _ | 15 huge | advmod |
| 15 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 allied | xcomp |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 remained | mark |
| 17 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 18 remained | nsubj |
| 18 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 huge | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 remained | xcomp |
| 20 | till | till | ADP | _ | 22 land | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 land | det |
| 22 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 remained | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pledged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pledge | past | Friendship eterne | kings = king nsubj | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | strive | past | Friendship eterne not said here | then; year | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ally | past | hosts | huge property | vn conspire-71 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | remain | past | none | till the land | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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