The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 128
He gave command like one that, born to power, With courteous might scarce conscious puts it forth: He spake the word: all heard him: all obeyed Magnanimous to feel when majesty Authentic stood before them.
Who acts: sod, courteous, Authentic · What happens: give, bear, put, speak, hear, obey · To what, where: command, word, sod, Magnanimous · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (sod, courteous, Authentic), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 one | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 gave | obl |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 one | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 born | punct |
| 8 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 gave | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 power | case |
| 10 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 born | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 puts | punct |
| 12 | With | with | SCONJ | _ | 17 puts | mark |
| 13 | courteous | courteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 puts | nsubj |
| 14 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 conscious | aux |
| 15 | scarce | scarce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 conscious | amod |
| 16 | conscious | conscious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 courteous | conj |
| 17 | puts | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 born | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 puts | obj |
| 19 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 17 puts | advmod |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 spake | punct |
| 21 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 spake | nsubj |
| 22 | spake | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 word | det |
| 24 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 spake | obj |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 heard | punct |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 heard | advmod |
| 27 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 spake | parataxis |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 heard | obj |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 31 obeyed | punct |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 obeyed | advmod |
| 31 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 heard | conj |
| 32 | Magnanimous | Magnanimous | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 obeyed | obj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 feel | mark |
| 34 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 obeyed | xcomp |
| 35 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 37 Authentic | advmod |
| 36 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 Authentic | obl:unmarked |
| 37 | Authentic | authentic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 stood | nsubj |
| 38 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 feel | ccomp |
| 39 | before | before | ADP | _ | 40 them | case |
| 40 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 stood | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | sod | command | like one that | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent command=Theme | |||
| 2 | bear | participle | sod not said here | to power | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | put | present | courteous | command | forth property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | |||
| 4 | speak speech: other | past | sod | the word | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | hear | past | sod | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | obey | past | Magnanimous | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | feel | to-infinitive | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 8 | stand | past | Authentic majesty | before stakes = stake | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before they=Location |
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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