The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 164
Dreadful gaze Long fixed they, each on other; Fergus spake: ‘Is this indeed that king who filched that realm Not his, then shamed it by a bloodier fraud; Who brake his pledge; who murdered Usnach’s sons; Who drave from Uladh, Uladh’s rightful king;-- And comes he at my hand to meet his doom?
Who acts: Dreadful gaze, this, king, bloodier fraud, sons, gaze · What happens: fix, be, filch, shame, break, murder · To what, where: foes, king, realm, sole, pledge, sons
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 (Dreadful gaze, this, king, bloodier fraud), 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 | Dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 gaze | amod |
| 2 | gaze | gaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fixed | nsubj |
| 3 | Long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 fixed | advmod |
| 4 | fixed | fix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fixed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 each | punct |
| 7 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 fixed | conj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 other | case |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 each | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 spake | punct |
| 11 | Fergus | Fergus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 spake | compound |
| 12 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fixed | obl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 king | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 king | punct |
| 15 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 king | cop |
| 16 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 king | nsubj |
| 17 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 19 king | advmod |
| 18 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 king | det |
| 19 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fixed | obl |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 filched | nsubj |
| 21 | filched | filch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 king | acl:relcl |
| 22 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 realm | det |
| 23 | realm | realm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 filched | obj |
| 24 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 his | advmod |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 realm | acl:relcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 shamed | punct |
| 27 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 shamed | advmod |
| 28 | shamed | shame | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fixed | conj |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 shamed | obj |
| 30 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 fraud | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 fraud | det |
| 32 | bloodier | bloody | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 33 fraud | amod |
| 33 | fraud | fraud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 shamed | obl |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 brake | punct |
| 35 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 brake | nsubj |
| 36 | brake | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 fraud | parataxis |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 pledge | nmod:poss |
| 38 | pledge | pledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 brake | obj |
| 39 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 murdered | punct |
| 40 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 murdered | nsubj |
| 41 | murdered | murder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 fraud | parataxis |
| 42 | Usnach | Usnach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 sons | nmod:poss |
| 43 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 42 Usnach | case |
| 44 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 murdered | obj |
| 45 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 47 drave | punct |
| 46 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 47 drave | nsubj |
| 47 | drave | drave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 sons | acl:relcl |
| 48 | from | from | ADP | _ | 49 Uladh | case |
| 49 | Uladh | Uladh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 drave | obl |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 Uladh | punct |
| 51 | Uladh | Uladh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 52 ’s | nsubj |
| 52 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 49 Uladh | acl:relcl |
| 53 | rightful | rightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 king | amod |
| 54 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 ’s | obj |
| 55 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 47 drave | punct |
| 56 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 58 comes | punct |
| 57 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 58 comes | cc |
| 58 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fixed | conj |
| 59 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 58 comes | obj |
| 60 | at | at | ADP | _ | 62 hand | case |
| 61 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 62 hand | nmod:poss |
| 62 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 comes | obl |
| 63 | to | to | PART | _ | 64 meet | mark |
| 64 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 58 comes | advcl |
| 65 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 66 doom | nmod:poss |
| 66 | doom | doom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 64 meet | obj |
| 67 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 fixed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix | past | Dreadful gaze | foes = foe | Fergus spake obl; long property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||
| 2 | is a | present | this | that king | indeed property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | filch | past | that king | that realm gaze | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent realm=Theme | ||||
| 4 | shame | past | Dreadful gaze not said here | sole | then | by a bloodier fraud | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer | ||
| 5 | break | present | a bloodier fraud | gaze's pledge | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pledge=Patient | ||||
| 6 | murder | past | a bloodier fraud | Usnach's sons | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | ||||
| 7 | drave | past | Usnach's sons | Uladh | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | come | present | Dreadful gaze not said here | pledge | my hand | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme | |||
| 9 | meet | to-infinitive | Dreadful gaze not said here | gaze's doom | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doom=Co-Agent | ||||
| 10 | pledge | gaze | nom pledge «possession transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 11 | doom | gaze | nom doom «event 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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