The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 209
On that night Of overthrow he reached the royal camp: Far off they kenned his car, and raised that shout Heard never save for him.
Who acts: Devastated, tidings, that, Heard · What happens: reach, ken, raise, shout, not save · To what, where: royal camp, car · 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 (Devastated, tidings, that, Heard), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 night | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 night | det |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reached | obl |
| 4 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 5 overthrow | case |
| 5 | overthrow | overthrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 night | nmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 reached | nsubj |
| 7 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 camp | det |
| 9 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 camp | amod |
| 10 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reached | obj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 kenned | punct |
| 12 | Far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 kenned | advmod |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 kenned | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 kenned | nsubj |
| 15 | kenned | ken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 reached | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 car | nmod:poss |
| 17 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kenned | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 raised | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 raised | cc |
| 20 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 kenned | conj |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 shout | nsubj |
| 22 | shout | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 raised | ccomp |
| 23 | Heard | Heard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 save | nsubj |
| 24 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 25 save | advmod |
| 25 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 shout | ccomp |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 save | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | Devastated | the royal camp | night | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent camp=Theme | |||
| 2 | ken | past | tidings = tiding | Devastated's car | far property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | raise | past | tidings = tiding not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | shout speech: express | present | that | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | not save | infinitive | Heard | for Devastated | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for he=Beneficiary |
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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