The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 265
Perished there The Ossorians, and the Olnemacian chiefs, And many a champion famed from Slaney’s bank To Lee and Laune, from Caiseal’s crested rock[37] To Beara’s strand.
What happens: perish, fame, crest · To what, where: Ossorians, many champion, Lee, bank, rock, Caiseal ’s
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: 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 | Perished | perish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Perished | advmod |
| 3 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Ossorians | det |
| 4 | Ossorians | Ossorian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 1 Perished | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 chiefs | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 chiefs | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 chiefs | det |
| 8 | Olnemacian | Olnemacian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 chiefs | compound |
| 9 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Ossorians | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 champion | punct |
| 11 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 champion | cc |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 champion | amod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 champion | det |
| 14 | champion | champion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Ossorians | appos |
| 15 | famed | fame | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 champion | acl |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 bank | case |
| 17 | Slaney | Slaney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 bank | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 Slaney | case |
| 19 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 famed | obl |
| 20 | To | to | ADP | _ | 21 Lee | case |
| 21 | Lee | Lee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 famed | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 Laune | cc |
| 23 | Laune | Laune | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Lee | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 crested | punct |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 ’s | case |
| 26 | Caiseal | Caiseal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 ’s | compound |
| 27 | ’s | ' | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 crested | obl |
| 28 | crested | crest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Perished | conj |
| 29 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 crested | obj |
| 30 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 31 37 | punct |
| 31 | 37 | 37 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 rock | appos |
| 32 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 31 37 | punct |
| 33 | To | to | ADP | _ | 36 strand | case |
| 34 | Beara | Beara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 strand | nmod:poss |
| 35 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 34 Beara | case |
| 36 | strand | strand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 crested | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Perished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perish | participle | the Ossorians and the Olnemacian chiefs | there | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fame | participle | a many champion not said here | Lee and Laune | Slaney's bank | tree rules | |||
| 3 | crest | past | rock | Caiseal ’s | to Beara's strand | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rock=Theme |
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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