The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 125
To his task The strong one sped, and change was over all: Again the voice of discipline was heard: None drank in booths; none rushed abroad; with sloth Fierceness had vanished.
Who acts: None, sloth Fierceness, host · What happens: speed, hear, drink, rush, vanish, task · To what, where: strong one, booths
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 (None, sloth Fierceness, host), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 task | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 task | nmod:poss |
| 3 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 heard | obl |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 one | det |
| 5 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 one | amod |
| 6 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 heard | nsubj |
| 7 | sped | speed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 one | acl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 heard | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 heard | cc |
| 10 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 all | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 all | cop |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 all | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 all | punct |
| 15 | Again | again | ADP | _ | 17 voice | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 voice | det |
| 17 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 all | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 discipline | case |
| 19 | discipline | discipline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 voice | nmod |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 heard | aux:pass |
| 21 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 drank | punct |
| 23 | None | None | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 drank | nsubj |
| 24 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 heard | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 booths | case |
| 26 | booths | booth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 drank | obl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 rushed | punct |
| 28 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 29 rushed | nsubj |
| 29 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 heard | parataxis |
| 30 | abroad | abroad | ADV | _ | 29 rushed | advmod |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 vanished | punct |
| 32 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 36 vanished | mark |
| 33 | sloth | sloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 Fierceness | compound |
| 34 | Fierceness | fierceness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 vanished | nsubj |
| 35 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 vanished | aux |
| 36 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 rushed | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speed | participle | the strong one not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hear | past · passive | the strong one | to host's task | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | drink | past | None | booths | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | rush | past | none | abroad property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | vanish | past · perfect | sloth Fierceness | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | task | host | nom task «act transitive»: poss=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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