The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 87
No tear they shed, but scowled Defiance on their lords and war-songs sang Of Uladh and her vengeance.
Who acts: tear, war songs · What happens: shed, scowl, sing · To what, where: Defiance
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 (tear, war songs), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 tear | det |
| 2 | tear | tear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shed | nsubj |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 shed | nsubj |
| 4 | shed | shed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 scowled | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 scowled | cc |
| 7 | scowled | scowl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shed | conj |
| 8 | Defiance | Defiance | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 scowled | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 lords | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 lords | nmod:poss |
| 11 | lords | lord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 scowled | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sang | cc |
| 13 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 songs | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 war | punct |
| 15 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 sang | nsubj |
| 16 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 scowled | conj |
| 17 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Uladh | case |
| 18 | Uladh | Uladh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 sang | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 vengeance | cc |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 vengeance | nmod:poss |
| 21 | vengeance | vengeance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Uladh | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shed | past | no tear | boys = boy nsubj | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | ||||
| 2 | scowl | past | no tear not said here | Defiance | on boys's lords | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent defiance=Theme | |||
| 3 | sing speech: express | past | war songs | of Uladh and song's vengeance | vn sound_emission-43.2 «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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/15/87/