The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 67
And on the nod of him whom ye traduce, Your pageant crowns sit trembling.
Who acts: ye, pageant crowns, Your · What happens: traduce, sit, tremble, nod, crown · To what, where: nod, battle
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 (ye, pageant crowns, Your), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sit | cc |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 nod | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 nod | det |
| 4 | nod | nod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sit | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 nod | nmod |
| 7 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 traduce | obj |
| 8 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 traduce | nsubj |
| 9 | traduce | traduce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 nod | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 nod | punct |
| 11 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 crowns | nmod:poss |
| 12 | pageant | pageant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 crowns | compound |
| 13 | crowns | crown | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 sit | nsubj |
| 14 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | trembling | tremble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 sit | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 sit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | traduce | present | ye | the nod of battle | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sit | present | Your pageant crowns | the nod of battle | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tremble | gerund | Your pageant crowns not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | nod | battle | nom nod «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | crown | Your | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=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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