The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 231
The gaze Of Leagh was on him fixed: he heard it not: Slowly it died; and as it died the wail Came feebly forth from Uladh’s host.
Who acts: gaze, hand, wail, Leagh · What happens: be, not hear, die, come, gaze · To what, where: hand, 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 (gaze, hand, wail, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 gaze | det |
| 2 | gaze | gaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fixed | nsubj |
| 3 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Leagh | case |
| 4 | Leagh | Leagh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 gaze | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fixed | cop |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 fixed | obl |
| 8 | fixed | fix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 heard | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 heard | nsubj |
| 11 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fixed | parataxis |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 heard | obj |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 heard | advmod |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 died | punct |
| 15 | Slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 17 died | advmod |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 died | nsubj |
| 17 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 heard | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 died | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 died | cc |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 died | mark |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 died | nsubj |
| 22 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fixed | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 wail | det |
| 24 | wail | wail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Came | nsubj |
| 25 | Came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 died | conj |
| 26 | feebly | feebly | ADV | _ | 27 forth | advmod |
| 27 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 25 Came | advmod |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 host | case |
| 29 | Uladh | Uladh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 host | nmod:poss |
| 30 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 29 Uladh | case |
| 31 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Came | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 fixed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the gaze of Leagh | on Leagh; fix property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not hear | past | gaze | hand | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | die | past | hand | slowly property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | die | past | hand | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | come | past | the wail | Uladh's host | forth property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from host=Initial_Location | |||
| 6 | gaze | Leagh | nom gaze «act intransitive»: of=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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