The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 86
Hewing oaks on Fuad’s crest He marked her host, and rushed, a naked man From waist to head, his axe within his hand, In fury on it.
Who acts: Fuad · What happens: hew, mark, rush · To what, where: oaks, crest, host, naked man, fury
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 (Fuad), 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 | Hewing | hew | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | oaks | oak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Hewing | obj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 crest | case |
| 4 | Fuad | Fuad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 crest | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Fuad | case |
| 6 | crest | crest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hewing | obl |
| 7 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 marked | nsubj |
| 8 | marked | mark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 crest | acl:relcl |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 host | nmod:poss |
| 10 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 marked | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 rushed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 rushed | cc |
| 13 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Hewing | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 man | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 16 | naked | naked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 man | amod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rushed | obl |
| 18 | From | from | ADP | _ | 19 waist | case |
| 19 | waist | waist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 man | nmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 head | case |
| 21 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 man | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 axe | punct |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 axe | nmod:poss |
| 24 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 man | conj |
| 25 | within | within | ADP | _ | 27 hand | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 hand | nmod:poss |
| 27 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rushed | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 fury | punct |
| 29 | In | in | ADP | _ | 30 fury | case |
| 30 | fury | fury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rushed | obl |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 it | case |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 fury | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hewing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hew | gerund | oaks | Fuad's crest | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oak=Patient | ||||
| 2 | mark | past | Fuad | Ketherne's host | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent host=Destination | ||||
| 3 | rush | past | a naked man from waist to head and Fuad's axe | fury on hand | within Fuad's hand | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fury=Trajectory |
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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