The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 16, sentence 4
Ill-pleased He on his keepers turning slew a score, Yet peaceful paced at last betwixt their ranks, At each side fifty spears.
Who acts: pleased keepers · What happens: turn, slay, pace · To what, where: score, fifty spears, last betwixt ranks
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 (pleased keepers), 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 | Ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pleased | amod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ill | punct |
| 3 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 keepers | amod |
| 4 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 keepers | nsubj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 keepers | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 keepers | nmod:poss |
| 7 | keepers | keeper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 slew | nsubj |
| 8 | turning | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 slew | nsubj |
| 9 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 score | det |
| 11 | score | score | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 slew | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 paced | punct |
| 13 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 15 paced | cc |
| 14 | peaceful | peaceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 paced | amod |
| 15 | paced | pace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 slew | conj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 ranks | case |
| 17 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 ranks | amod |
| 18 | betwixt | betwixt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 ranks | amod |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 ranks | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ranks | rank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 paced | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 side | punct |
| 22 | At | at | ADP | _ | 24 side | case |
| 23 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 side | det |
| 24 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 paced | obl |
| 25 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 spears | nummod |
| 26 | spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 paced | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 slew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | gerund | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | slay | past | Doubtful's pleased keepers Doubtful | a score | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent score=Patient | ||||
| 3 | pace | participle | Doubtful's pleased keepers Doubtful not said here | fifty spears | keepers's last betwixt ranks | at each side | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location spear=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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