The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 223
When rose the conquerors’ shout Leagh to Cuchullain crept, and touched him not, Yet knelt and whispered, ‘Heard you not that sound?’
Who acts: you, Leagh · What happens: rise, shout, creep, not touch, kneel, whisper · To what, where: Leagh
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 (you, Leagh), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 rose | advmod |
| 2 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 shout | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 conquerors | det |
| 4 | conquerors | conqueror | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 shout | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 4 conquerors | case |
| 6 | shout | shout | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Leagh | Leagh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 crept | nsubj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Cuchullain | case |
| 9 | Cuchullain | Cuchullain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Leagh | nmod |
| 10 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 shout | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 touched | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 touched | cc |
| 13 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 crept | advcl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 touched | obj |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 touched | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 knelt | punct |
| 17 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 18 knelt | cc |
| 18 | knelt | kneel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 crept | parataxis |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 whispered | cc |
| 20 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 knelt | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 sound | punct |
| 22 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 sound | punct |
| 23 | Heard | heard | INTJ | _ | 27 sound | discourse |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 sound | nsubj |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 sound | advmod |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 sound | nsubj |
| 27 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 whispered | obl |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 shout | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 shout | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | you not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | shout speech: express | imperative | you not said here | the conquerors nmod:poss | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | creep | past | Leagh to Cuchullain | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not touch | past | Leagh to Cuchullain not said here | Leagh | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme | ||||
| 5 | kneel | past | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | whisper speech: assert | past | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | not sound | you | that nsubj | tree rules |
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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