The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 187
Far other sound Quelled it: from Uladh’s sorrowing camp it swelled, A jubilant cry soaring from earth to heaven!
Who acts: other sound, din, jubilant cry · What happens: quell, sorrow, swell, soar · To what, where: din, sorrowing camp, earth
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 (other sound, din, jubilant cry), 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 | Far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 Quelled | advmod |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sound | amod |
| 3 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Quelled | nsubj |
| 4 | Quelled | quell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 Quelled | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 camp | punct |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 camp | case |
| 8 | Uladh | Uladh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 camp | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 Uladh | case |
| 10 | sorrowing | sorrow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 camp | amod |
| 11 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Quelled | obl |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 swelled | nsubj |
| 13 | swelled | swell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 camp | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 cry | punct |
| 15 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 cry | det |
| 16 | jubilant | jubilant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 cry | amod |
| 17 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 camp | conj |
| 18 | soaring | soar | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 cry | acl |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 earth | case |
| 20 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 soaring | obl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 heaven | case |
| 22 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 soaring | obl |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 Quelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quell | past | other sound | din | Uladh's sorrowing camp and a jubilant cry | far property | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||
| 2 | sorrow | gerund | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | swell | past | din | Uladh's sorrowing camp and a jubilant cry not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient camp=Extent | ||||
| 4 | soar | gerund | a jubilant cry not said here | earth | to heaven result | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient from earth=Initial_State to heaven=Result |
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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