The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 260
That brazen cirque, not less Where stood his javelins ranged was never void; Work of some God!
Who acts: javelins, brazen cirque, God · What happens: stand, range, not be, work
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 (javelins, brazen cirque, God), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 cirque | det |
| 2 | brazen | brazen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cirque | amod |
| 3 | cirque | cirque | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 void | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 stood | punct |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 less | advmod |
| 6 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 stood | advmod |
| 7 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 stood | advmod |
| 8 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cirque | acl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 javelins | nmod:poss |
| 10 | javelins | javelin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 ranged | nsubj |
| 11 | ranged | range | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 stood | ccomp |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 void | cop |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 void | advmod |
| 14 | void | void | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 Work | punct |
| 16 | Work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 void | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 God | case |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 God | det |
| 19 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Work | nmod |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 void | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | less property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | range | past | voice's javelins | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not is | past | that brazen cirque | Work of some God obl; void property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | work | some God | nom work «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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