The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 279
Though few and bleeding fast Fearless upon a cloudy crag they stood, Phalanx prepared to die, prepared not less Dearly to sell their lives, while past them streamed That panic-stricken throng.
Who acts: few Phalanx, Ulidians · What happens: bleed, stand, prepare, die, sell, stream · To what, where: Fearless, cloudy crag, lives, stricken throng
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 (few Phalanx, Ulidians), 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 | Though | though | SCONJ | _ | 2 few | mark |
| 2 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Phalanx | amod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 bleeding | cc |
| 4 | bleeding | bleed | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 few | conj |
| 5 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 bleeding | advmod |
| 6 | Fearless | Fearless | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 bleeding | obj |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 crag | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 crag | det |
| 9 | cloudy | cloudy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 crag | amod |
| 10 | crag | crag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bleeding | obl |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stood | nsubj |
| 12 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 crag | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 few | punct |
| 14 | Phalanx | Phalanx | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 prepared | nsubj |
| 15 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 die | mark |
| 17 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 prepared | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 prepared | punct |
| 19 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 die | advcl |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 less | advmod |
| 21 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 Dearly | advmod |
| 22 | Dearly | dearly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 prepared | xcomp |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 sell | mark |
| 24 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 Dearly | xcomp |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 lives | nmod:poss |
| 26 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 sell | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 streamed | punct |
| 28 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 31 streamed | mark |
| 29 | past | past | ADP | _ | 30 them | case |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 streamed | obl |
| 31 | streamed | stream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 prepared | conj |
| 32 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 throng | det |
| 33 | panic | panic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 stricken | compound |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 panic | punct |
| 35 | stricken | stricken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 throng | amod |
| 36 | throng | throng | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 streamed | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 prepared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bleed | gerund | few Phalanx not said here | Fearless | upon a cloudy crag; fast property | vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent fearless=Source | |||
| 2 | stand | past | Ulidians = ulidian | a cloudy crag not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crag=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | prepare | past | few Phalanx | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | die not said to happen | to-infinitive | few Phalanx not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | prepare | participle | few Phalanx not said here | dearly property | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | sell | to-infinitive | few Phalanx not said here | Ulidians's lives | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | ||||
| 7 | stream | past | few Phalanx not said here | that stricken throng | past Ulidians = ulidian | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location throng=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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