The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 94
Fergus marked her eye That moved not from them, smiled, and made demand, ‘What find’st thou in our mountain ridges, Queen, That merits gaze so fixed?’
Who acts: Fergus, That, merits · What happens: mark, not move, smile, make, find'st, gaze · To what, where: eye, thou, mountain ridges
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 (Fergus, That, merits), 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 | Fergus | Fergus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 marked | nsubj |
| 2 | marked | mark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 eye | nmod:poss |
| 4 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 marked | obj |
| 5 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 moved | nsubj |
| 6 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 marked | conj |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 moved | advmod |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 moved | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 smiled | punct |
| 11 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 moved | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 demand | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 demand | cc |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 demand | amod |
| 15 | demand | demand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 marked | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 find’st | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 find’st | punct |
| 18 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 find’st | nsubj |
| 19 | find’st | find'st | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 marked | conj |
| 20 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 find’st | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 ridges | case |
| 22 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 ridges | nmod:poss |
| 23 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ridges | compound |
| 24 | ridges | ridge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 find’st | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Queen | punct |
| 26 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 ridges | appos |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 gaze | punct |
| 28 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 merits | det |
| 29 | merits | merit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 gaze | nsubj |
| 30 | gaze | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 marked | parataxis |
| 31 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 fixed | advmod |
| 32 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 gaze | xcomp |
| 33 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 marked | punct |
| 34 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 marked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mark | past | Fergus | Fergus's eye | made demand obl | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent eye=Destination | |||
| 2 | not move | past | That | from eyes = eye | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from they=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | smile | past | That not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | make | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 5 | find'st | past | thou | our mountain ridges | What nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 6 | gaze | present | that merits | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | fix | participle | that merits not said here | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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