The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 277
Next morn the Ulidians where that shield had stood In silence stern planted three pillar-stones, White daughters of the tempest-beaten hills, In Ogham graved, ‘Vanquished by Uladh’s sons Here fled the invader, Meave.’
Who acts: silence stern, sons · What happens: stand, plant, beat, grave, vanquish, flee · To what, where: Next morn, silence stern, three pillar stones, Ogham, invader
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 (silence stern, sons), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morn | amod |
| 2 | morn | morn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Ulidians | det |
| 4 | Ulidians | Ulidian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 stood | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 stood | advmod |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 shield | det |
| 7 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stood | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 stood | aux |
| 9 | stood | stand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | In | in | ADP | _ | 12 stern | case |
| 11 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stern | compound |
| 12 | stern | stern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stood | obl |
| 13 | planted | plant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 stern | acl |
| 14 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 stones | nummod |
| 15 | pillar | pillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stones | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 pillar | punct |
| 17 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 planted | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 daughters | punct |
| 19 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 daughters | amod |
| 20 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 stones | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 hills | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 hills | det |
| 23 | tempest | tempest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 beaten | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 tempest | punct |
| 25 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 hills | amod |
| 26 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 daughters | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 graved | punct |
| 28 | In | in | ADP | _ | 29 Ogham | case |
| 29 | Ogham | Ogham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 graved | obl |
| 30 | graved | grave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 stood | parataxis |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 Vanquished | punct |
| 32 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 33 Vanquished | punct |
| 33 | Vanquished | vanquish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 fled | advcl |
| 34 | by | by | ADP | _ | 37 sons | case |
| 35 | Uladh | Uladh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 sons | nmod:poss |
| 36 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 35 Uladh | case |
| 37 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 fled | nsubj |
| 38 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 37 sons | advmod |
| 39 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 graved | conj |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 invader | det |
| 41 | invader | invader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 fled | obj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 Meave | punct |
| 43 | Meave | Meave | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 invader | appos |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 stood | punct |
| 45 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past · perfect · passive | Next morn | silence stern | the Ulidians nsubj:pass; that shield nsubj | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in stern=Destination | |||
| 2 | plant | participle | silence stern not said here | three pillar stones and White daughters of the beaten hills | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Patient | ||||
| 3 | beat | participle | tempest compound | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | grave | past | Ogham | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | vanquish | participle | Uladh's sons not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | flee | past | Uladh's sons | the invader | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme invader=Initial_Location |
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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