The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 154
In fresher strength The host confederate met them.
Who acts: host confederate · What happens: meet · To what, where: Knights, fresher strength
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 (host confederate), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 strength | case |
| 2 | fresher | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 strength | amod |
| 3 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 met | obl |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 confederate | det |
| 5 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 confederate | compound |
| 6 | confederate | confederate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 met | nsubj |
| 7 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 met | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | the host confederate | Knights = knight | fresher strength | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-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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