The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 76
Fiercely and long The unwise council strove; and Meave, who feared Far more the petulance of her lesser kings Than that great exile’s loftier wrath, resumed Next morn her march erratic.
Who acts: Meave · What happens: long, fear, resume · To what, where: unwise council strove, more petulance, Next morn
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 (Meave), 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 | Fiercely | fiercely | ADV | _ | 3 long | advmod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 long | cc |
| 3 | long | long | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 strove | det |
| 5 | unwise | unwise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 strove | amod |
| 6 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 strove | compound |
| 7 | strove | strove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 long | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 Meave | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Meave | cc |
| 10 | Meave | Meave | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 long | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 feared | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 feared | nsubj |
| 13 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 Meave | acl:relcl |
| 14 | Far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 more | advmod |
| 15 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 petulance | amod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 petulance | det |
| 17 | petulance | petulance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 feared | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 kings | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 kings | nmod:poss |
| 20 | lesser | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 kings | amod |
| 21 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 petulance | nmod |
| 22 | Than | than | ADP | _ | 28 wrath | case |
| 23 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 exile | det |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 exile | amod |
| 25 | exile | exile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 wrath | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 exile | case |
| 27 | loftier | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 28 wrath | amod |
| 28 | wrath | wrath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 feared | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 resumed | punct |
| 30 | resumed | resume | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 Meave | acl:relcl |
| 31 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 morn | amod |
| 32 | morn | morn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 resumed | obj |
| 33 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 march | nmod:poss |
| 34 | march | march | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 resumed | obj |
| 35 | erratic | erratic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 resumed | xcomp |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | long | past | the unwise council strove | Meave obl; fiercely property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fear | past | Meave | the more petulance of Meave's lesser kings | than that great exile's loftier wrath | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer petulance=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | resume | participle | Meave not said here | Next morn | Meave's march obj; erratic property | tree rules |
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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