The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 120
Proudly Ailill clasped Its glittering hilt: Fergus drew back the sheath; And lo, a wooden sword, for babes a toy!
Who acts: Ailill, Fergus · What happens: clasp, draw back · To what, where: glittering hilt, sheath
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ailill, Fergus), 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 | Proudly | proudly | ADV | _ | 3 clasped | advmod |
| 2 | Ailill | Ailill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 clasped | nsubj |
| 3 | clasped | clasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hilt | nmod:poss |
| 5 | glittering | glittering | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hilt | amod |
| 6 | hilt | hilt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 clasped | obj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 drew | punct |
| 8 | Fergus | Fergus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 drew | nsubj |
| 9 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 clasped | conj |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 drew | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sheath | det |
| 12 | sheath | sheath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drew | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 sword | punct |
| 14 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sword | cc |
| 15 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 19 sword | discourse |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lo | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 sword | det |
| 18 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 sword | amod |
| 19 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 clasped | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 babes | punct |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 babes | case |
| 22 | babes | babe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 sword | appos |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 toy | det |
| 24 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 babes | nmod:unmarked |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 clasped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clasp | past | Ailill | best's glittering hilt | a wooden sword obl; proudly property | vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hilt=Theme | |||
| 2 | draw back | past | Fergus | the sheath | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheath=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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