The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 249
He reached Ilgairig’s southern verge: he reined his steeds: High in his car he stood; with level hand Screening his eyes he scanned that battle-field, His future course decreeing.
Who acts: Ilgairig, level hand · What happens: reach, rein, stand, screen, scan, decree · To what, where: southern verge, steeds, car, eyes, battle field
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 (Ilgairig, level hand), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 reached | nsubj |
| 2 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Ilgairig | Ilgairig | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 verge | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 Ilgairig | case |
| 5 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 verge | amod |
| 6 | verge | verge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reached | obj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 reined | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 reined | nsubj |
| 9 | reined | rein | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 reached | conj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 steeds | nmod:poss |
| 11 | steeds | steed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 reined | obj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 High | punct |
| 13 | High | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 steeds | amod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 car | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 car | nmod:poss |
| 16 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 High | obl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 stood | nsubj |
| 18 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 car | acl:relcl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 scanned | punct |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 hand | case |
| 21 | level | level | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 hand | amod |
| 22 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 scanned | obl |
| 23 | Screening | screen | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 hand | acl |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 25 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 Screening | obj |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 scanned | nsubj |
| 27 | scanned | scan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 reached | parataxis |
| 28 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 field | det |
| 29 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 field | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 battle | punct |
| 31 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 scanned | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 course | punct |
| 33 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 course | nmod:poss |
| 34 | future | future | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 course | amod |
| 35 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 scanned | obl |
| 36 | decreeing | decree | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 scanned | advcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | Ilgairig | Ilgairig's southern verge | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent verge=Theme | ||||
| 2 | rein | past | Ilgairig | Ilgairig's steeds | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | Ilgairig | Ilgairig's car not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer car=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | screen | gerund | level hand not said here | Ilgairig's eyes | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 5 | scan | past | Ilgairig | that battle field | with level hand; Ilgairig's future course obl | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Theme | |||
| 6 | decree | gerund | Ilgairig not said here | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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