The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 45
A hundred swords Flashed from their sheaths, and from a hundred mouths One sentence issued--‘Death!’
What happens: flash, issue · To what, where: hundred swords, sheaths, hundred mouths
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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 hundred | det |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 swords | nummod |
| 3 | swords | sword | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | Flashed | flash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 swords | acl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 sheaths | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sheaths | nmod:poss |
| 7 | sheaths | sheath | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Flashed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 mouths | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 mouths | cc |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 mouths | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 hundred | det |
| 12 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 mouths | nummod |
| 13 | mouths | mouth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 swords | conj |
| 14 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 sentence | nummod |
| 15 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mouths | conj |
| 16 | issued | issue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 mouths | acl |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 Death | punct |
| 18 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 Death | punct |
| 19 | Death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 swords | conj |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 swords | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 swords | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flash | participle | hundred swords and hundred mouths and One sentence and Death not said here | swords's sheaths | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | issue | participle | hundred mouths and One sentence not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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