The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 197
Fierce she stood: Glorying she spake, and with attendance passed Forth from the hall of banquet to her tent: But as she passed she heard at either side She and her ladies with her, trembling heard The rushing of a panic-stricken host Invisible, though now the dawn was grey, A host t’ward Shenan flying!
Who acts: Fierce, dawn, host t’ward · What happens: stand, glory, speak, pass, hear, tremble · To what, where: attendance, hall, side · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Fierce, dawn, host t’ward), 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 | Fierce | fierce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 Glorying | punct |
| 5 | Glorying | glory | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 stood | advcl |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 spake | nsubj |
| 7 | spake | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 Glorying | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 attendance | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 attendance | cc |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 attendance | case |
| 11 | attendance | attendance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | parataxis |
| 12 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 attendance | acl |
| 13 | Forth | forth | ADV | _ | 12 passed | advmod |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 hall | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hall | det |
| 16 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 passed | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 banquet | case |
| 18 | banquet | banquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hall | nmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 tent | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 tent | nmod:poss |
| 21 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 banquet | nmod |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 passed | punct |
| 23 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 passed | cc |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 passed | mark |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 passed | nsubj |
| 26 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 attendance | parataxis |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 heard | nsubj |
| 28 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 passed | conj |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 side | case |
| 30 | either | either | DET | PronType=Ind | 31 side | det |
| 31 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 heard | obl |
| 32 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 side | nmod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 ladies | cc |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 ladies | nmod:poss |
| 35 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 She | conj |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 her | case |
| 37 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 She | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 trembling | punct |
| 39 | trembling | tremble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 40 heard | nsubj |
| 40 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 heard | parataxis |
| 41 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 rushing | det |
| 42 | rushing | rush | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 40 heard | xcomp |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 host | case |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 host | det |
| 45 | panic | panic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 stricken | compound |
| 46 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 45 panic | punct |
| 47 | stricken | stricken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 host | amod |
| 48 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 rushing | obl |
| 49 | Invisible | Invisible | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 host | appos |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 grey | punct |
| 51 | though | though | ADV | _ | 56 grey | advmod |
| 52 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 56 grey | advmod |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 dawn | det |
| 54 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 grey | nsubj |
| 55 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 56 grey | cop |
| 56 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 host | parataxis |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 60 t’ward | punct |
| 58 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 60 t’ward | det |
| 59 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 60 t’ward | compound |
| 60 | t’ward | t'ward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 grey | conj |
| 61 | Shenan | Shenan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 60 t’ward | appos |
| 62 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 60 t’ward | acl |
| 63 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Fierce | attendance parataxis | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | glory | gerund | Fierce not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | infinitive | Fierce | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | pass | participle | attendance not said here | the hall of banquet to Fierce's tent | forth property | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from hall=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | pass | past | Fierce | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | hear | past | Fierce | either side tent | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | tremble | gerund | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 8 | hear | past | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 9 | rush | gerund | of a stricken host | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of host=Trajectory | |||||
| 10 | is | past | the dawn | now | a host t’ward conj; grey, though property | tree rules | |||
| 11 | fly | gerund | a host t’ward not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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