The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 169
Long that fight Watched by two hosts in speechless stupor held, Direful and long!
Who acts: two hosts, speechless stupor · What happens: watch, hold · To what, where: Long, Direful
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 (two hosts, speechless stupor), 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 | Long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Watched | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 Watched | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | fight | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Watched | aux:pass |
| 4 | Watched | watch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 hosts | case |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 hosts | nummod |
| 7 | hosts | host | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Watched | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 stupor | case |
| 9 | speechless | speechless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 stupor | amod |
| 10 | stupor | stupor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hosts | nmod |
| 11 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 stupor | acl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Direful | punct |
| 13 | Direful | Direful | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 held | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 long | cc |
| 15 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Direful | conj |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 Watched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | present · passive | two hosts in speechless stupor | Long | that nsubj:pass | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | hold | participle | speechless stupor not said here | Direful | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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