The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 181
Scornful of their foe And burning for revenge, the North had spurned Science of war, their boast, and left, death-strewn, Full half their host.
Who acts: foes · What happens: burn, spurn, leave, boast · To what, where: North, host
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 (foes), 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 | Scornful | scornful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 left | advcl |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 foe | case |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 foe | nmod:poss |
| 4 | foe | foe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Scornful | obl |
| 5 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 burning | cc |
| 6 | burning | burn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 foe | conj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 revenge | case |
| 8 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 burning | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Science | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Science | det |
| 11 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 spurned | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 spurned | aux |
| 13 | spurned | spurn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 Science | amod |
| 14 | Science | science | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 foe | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 war | case |
| 16 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Science | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 boast | punct |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 boast | nmod:poss |
| 19 | boast | boast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 foe | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 left | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 left | cc |
| 22 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 strewn | punct |
| 24 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 strewn | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 death | punct |
| 26 | strewn | strewn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 left | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Full | punct |
| 28 | Full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 strewn | conj |
| 29 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 31 host | det:predet |
| 30 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 host | nmod:poss |
| 31 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 left | obl:unmarked |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | gerund | for revenge | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | spurn | past · perfect · passive | North | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | leave | participle | foes's host | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | boast | foes = foe | nom boast «communication intransitive»: 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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