The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 84
O’er Uladh’s breadth Daily some chief, or fragment of a clan Long chilled by rumour of Cuchullain slain, Despite King Conor’s hest assailed the queen Marching, though late, on Eman.
Who acts: breadth, chief, queen, Cuchullain slain · What happens: chief, chill, assail, march, rumour · To what, where: clan, queen, Eman
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 (breadth, chief, queen, Cuchullain slain), 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 | O’er | O'er | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 breadth | nmod:poss |
| 2 | Uladh | Uladh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 O’er | flat |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 1 O’er | case |
| 4 | breadth | breadth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chief | nsubj |
| 5 | Daily | Daily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 breadth | appos |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 chief | det |
| 7 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 assailed | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fragment | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 fragment | cc |
| 10 | fragment | fragment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chief | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 clan | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 clan | det |
| 13 | clan | clan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fragment | nmod |
| 14 | Long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 chilled | advmod |
| 15 | chilled | chill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 clan | acl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 rumour | case |
| 17 | rumour | rumour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 chilled | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 slain | case |
| 19 | Cuchullain | Cuchullain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 slain | compound |
| 20 | slain | slain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rumour | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 King | punct |
| 22 | Despite | Despite | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 King | compound |
| 23 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 hest | nmod:poss |
| 24 | Conor | Conor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 King | flat |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 King | case |
| 26 | hest | hest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 assailed | nsubj |
| 27 | assailed | assail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 queen | det |
| 29 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 assailed | obj |
| 30 | Marching | march | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 queen | acl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 late | punct |
| 32 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 33 late | mark |
| 33 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 Marching | advmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 Eman | punct |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 Eman | case |
| 36 | Eman | Eman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Marching | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 assailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chief | O’er's breadth | fragment of a clan appos | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | chill | participle | a clan not said here | by rumour of Cuchullain slain; long property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | assail | past | some chief | the queen | Despite King's hest nsubj | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Patient | |||
| 4 | march | gerund | the queen not said here | Eman | late property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on eman=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | rumour | Cuchullain slain | nom rumour «communication intransitive»: of=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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