The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 88
King and chief Scanned each his prize with careless-seeming eye; Yet oft their followers strove, while onward paced The royal arbiters with wands high held, Ruling the wrangling crew.
Who acts: King, oft followers · What happens: scan, seem, strive, pace, hold, rule · To what, where: prize, royal arbiters, wands, wrangling crew
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 (King, oft followers), 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 | King | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Scanned | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 chief | cc |
| 3 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 King | conj |
| 4 | Scanned | scan | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 prize | det |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 prize | nmod:poss |
| 7 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Scanned | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 eye | case |
| 9 | careless | careless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 eye | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 careless | punct |
| 11 | seeming | seem | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 eye | amod |
| 12 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 prize | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 strove | punct |
| 14 | Yet | yet | ADV | _ | 15 oft | advmod |
| 15 | oft | oft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 followers | amod |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 followers | nmod:poss |
| 17 | followers | follower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 strove | nsubj |
| 18 | strove | strive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Scanned | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 paced | punct |
| 20 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 22 paced | mark |
| 21 | onward | onward | ADV | _ | 22 paced | advmod |
| 22 | paced | pace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 strove | conj |
| 23 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 arbiters | det |
| 24 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 arbiters | amod |
| 25 | arbiters | arbiter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 paced | obj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 wands | case |
| 27 | wands | wand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 paced | obl |
| 28 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 held | amod |
| 29 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 wands | acl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Ruling | punct |
| 31 | Ruling | rule | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 paced | advcl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 crew | det |
| 33 | wrangling | wrangling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 crew | compound |
| 34 | crew | crew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 Ruling | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Scanned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scan | participle | King and chief | Chief's prize | with careless seeming eye | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Theme | |||
| 2 | seem | gerund | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | strive | past | kings's oft followers | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | pace | past | kings's oft followers not said here | the royal arbiters | with wands; onward property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location arbiter=Theme | |||
| 5 | hold | participle | wands not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | rule | gerund | kings's oft followers not said here | the wrangling crew | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crew=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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