The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 16, sentence 164
• p. 190: Changed “Fionbannagh” to “Fionbannah” in phrase “the Bulls that shake this day our land, / Fionbannah, and the Donn.”
Who acts: • p., Bulls · What happens: change, shake · To what, where: Fionbannagh, Fionbannah, phrase, land
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (• p., Bulls), 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 | • | • | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 p. | compound |
| 2 | p. | P. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Changed | nsubj |
| 3 | 190 | 190 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 p. | flat |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 Changed | punct |
| 5 | Changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Fionbannagh | punct |
| 7 | Fionbannagh | Fionbannagh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Changed | obj |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Fionbannagh | punct |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Fionbannah | case |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Fionbannah | punct |
| 11 | Fionbannah | Fionbannah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Changed | obl |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Fionbannah | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 phrase | case |
| 14 | phrase | phrase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Changed | obl |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 Fionbannah | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Bulls | det |
| 17 | Bulls | bull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 Fionbannah | nsubj |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 shake | nsubj |
| 19 | shake | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 Bulls | acl:relcl |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 day | det |
| 21 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shake | obj |
| 22 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 land | nmod:poss |
| 23 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shake | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Fionbannah | punct |
| 25 | / | / | SYM | _ | 26 Fionbannah | cc |
| 26 | Fionbannah | Fionbannah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 phrase | appos |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Donn | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 Donn | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Donn | det |
| 30 | Donn | Donn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Fionbannah | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 Fionbannah | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 Fionbannah | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | participle | • p. | Fionbannagh | Fionbannah | phrase | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fionbannagh=Patient | ||
| 2 | shake in a quote | present | the Bulls | our land | day | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent land=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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