The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 264
As on he carved his course Not now a lane alone of doom and death But ever widening valleys ruin-strewn Bore witness of his transit, for behind Closed ever up Cuchullain’s household clans Murthemné’s, and Cuailgné’s.
Who acts: Eastward, valleys · What happens: carve, widen, witness, close · To what, where: course
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 (Eastward, valleys), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 carved | mark |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 carved | nsubj |
| 4 | carved | carve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 course | nmod:poss |
| 6 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carved | obj |
| 7 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 lane | advmod |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 lane | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 lane | det |
| 10 | lane | lane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carved | obl |
| 11 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 10 lane | advmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 doom | case |
| 13 | doom | doom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lane | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 death | cc |
| 15 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 doom | conj |
| 16 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 widening | cc |
| 17 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 18 widening | advmod |
| 18 | widening | widen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 carved | conj |
| 19 | valleys | valley | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 witness | nsubj |
| 20 | ruin | ruin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 witness | nsubj |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 ruin | punct |
| 22 | strewn | strewn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 witness | amod |
| 23 | Bore | bore | X | _ | 24 witness | compound |
| 24 | witness | witness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 widening | parataxis |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 transit | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 transit | nmod:poss |
| 27 | transit | transit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 witness | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Closed | punct |
| 29 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 31 Closed | mark |
| 30 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 31 Closed | mark |
| 31 | Closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 widening | conj |
| 32 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 31 Closed | advmod |
| 33 | up | up | ADP | _ | 37 clans | case |
| 34 | Cuchullain | Cuchullain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 clans | nmod:poss |
| 35 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 34 Cuchullain | case |
| 36 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 clans | compound |
| 37 | clans | clan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 Closed | obl |
| 38 | Murthemné | Murthemné | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 clans | appos |
| 39 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 38 Murthemné | case |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 Cuailgné | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 Cuailgné | cc |
| 42 | Cuailgné | Cuailgné | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Murthemné | nmod |
| 43 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 42 Cuailgné | case |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 carved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carve | past | Eastward | Eastward's course | a lane of doom and death obl | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent course=Theme | |||
| 2 | widen | gerund | Eastward not said here | ever | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | witness | valleys | of Eastward's transit; ruin nsubj | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | close | participle | Eastward not said here | ever | up Cuchullain's household clans | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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