The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 61

In measureless scorn Then turned he to the kings, continuing thus; ‘What mean those clamours and those swords half drawn Which draw ye dare not?

Who acts: clamours · What happens: turn, continue, mean, draw, not dare · To what, where: battle, kings, clamours, swords, ye

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 (clamours), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 scorn	case
2	measureless	measureless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 scorn	amod
3	scorn	scorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turned	obl
4	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 turned	advmod
5	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 turned	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 kings	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 kings	det
9	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 turned	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 continuing	punct
11	continuing	continue	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 turned	advcl
12	thus	thus	ADV	_	11 continuing	advmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 ‘	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 turned	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 mean	obj
16	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 ‘	ccomp
17	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	18 clamours	det
18	clamours	clamour	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 mean	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 drawn	cc
20	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	21 swords	det
21	swords	sword	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 drawn	nsubj:pass
22	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	23 drawn	advmod
23	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 clamours	conj
24	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 draw	nsubj
25	draw	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 clamours	acl:relcl
26	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	25 draw	obj
27	dare	dare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 draw	xcomp
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 dare	advmod
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past		battle	the kings	then	in measureless scorn	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Patient in scorn=Topic to king=Recipient
2	continue	gerund					thus property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	mean	present		that clamours			What obj	tree rules
4	draw	participle · passive		that swords			half property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	draw	present	that clamours	ye				tree rules
6	not dare	infinitive	that clamours not said here					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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🌲 The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 61

The tree

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The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 61