The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 235
Swift from his tent he strode:-- Without the hand of man there stood his car And those immortal steeds pawing the air With wonted battle-cry!
Who acts: man, hand, immortal steeds · What happens: stride, stand, paw, wont · To what, where: tent, car, air
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 (man, hand, immortal steeds), 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 | Swift | swift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 strode | compound |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 tent | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 tent | nmod:poss |
| 4 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 strode | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 strode | nsubj |
| 6 | strode | stride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 strode | punct |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 hand | punct |
| 9 | Without | without | ADP | _ | 11 hand | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hand | det |
| 11 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stood | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 man | case |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hand | nmod |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 man | advmod |
| 15 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 strode | 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 stood | obj |
| 18 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 stood | cc |
| 19 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 21 steeds | det |
| 20 | immortal | immortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 steeds | amod |
| 21 | steeds | steed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 And | nsubj |
| 22 | pawing | paw | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 steeds | acl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 air | det |
| 24 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pawing | obj |
| 25 | With | with | ADP | _ | 29 cry | case |
| 26 | wonted | wont | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 cry | amod |
| 27 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 cry | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 battle | punct |
| 29 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pawing | obl |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 strode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stride | past | man | man's tent | Swift compound | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from tent=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | stand | past | the hand of man | man's car | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer car=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | paw | gerund | that immortal steeds not said here | the air | with wonted battle cry | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent air=Patient with cry=Instrument | |||
| 4 | wont | participle | 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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