The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 148
Countless wrongs And shame at all that long inglorious trance, Roused wrath to madness; from them far they flung Encumbering arms, and, bare from scalp to waist, Worked on with brandished battle-axe.
Who acts: Countless wrongs · What happens: rouse, fling, encumber, bear, waist, work on · To what, where: arms, scalp
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 (Countless wrongs), 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 | Countless | countless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 wrongs | amod |
| 2 | wrongs | wrong | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 flung | nsubj |
| 3 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 shame | cc |
| 4 | shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wrongs | conj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 trance | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 trance | advmod |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 trance | nsubj |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 trance | amod |
| 9 | inglorious | inglorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 trance | amod |
| 10 | trance | trance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shame | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wrath | punct |
| 12 | Roused | rouse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 wrath | amod |
| 13 | wrath | wrath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 trance | appos |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 madness | case |
| 15 | madness | madness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wrath | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 flung | punct |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 flung | obl |
| 19 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 flung | advmod |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 flung | nsubj |
| 21 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | Encumbering | encumber | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 flung | xcomp |
| 23 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 Encumbering | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 bare | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 bare | cc |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 and | punct |
| 27 | bare | bear | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 21 flung | parataxis |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 scalp | case |
| 29 | scalp | scalp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bare | obl |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 waist | mark |
| 31 | waist | waist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 bare | xcomp |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 Worked | punct |
| 33 | Worked | work | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 bare | conj |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 Worked | compound:prt |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 axe | case |
| 36 | brandished | brandish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 axe | amod |
| 37 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 axe | compound |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 battle | punct |
| 39 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 Worked | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 flung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rouse | participle | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | fling | past | Countless wrongs and shame at long inglorious trance that | from hills = hill; far property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | encumber | gerund | Countless wrongs and shame at long inglorious trance that not said here | arms | vn equip-13.4.2-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme arm=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | bear | infinitive | scalp | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | waist | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | work on | participle | with brandished battle axe | vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with axe=Co-Agent | |||||
| 7 | brandish | participle | tree rules |
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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