The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 15
On the banks of the Boyne he might have made boast of a huge sepulchral mound still shown to the traveller, the tomb of Lewy, in whose veins the blood of the Tuatha was blended with that of the earlier Fomorian pirates.
Who acts: Tuathan, huge sepulchral mound · What happens: make, show, blend, boast · To what, where: boast, banks, huge sepulchral mound, traveller, blood, veins
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tuathan, huge sepulchral mound), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 banks | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 banks | det |
| 3 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 made | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Boyne | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Boyne | det |
| 6 | Boyne | Boyne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 banks | nmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 made | nsubj |
| 8 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 made | aux |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 made | aux |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | boast | boast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 mound | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 mound | det |
| 14 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 mound | amod |
| 15 | sepulchral | sepulchral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 mound | amod |
| 16 | mound | mound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 boast | nmod |
| 17 | still | still | ADV | _ | 18 shown | advmod |
| 18 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 mound | acl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 traveller | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 traveller | det |
| 21 | traveller | traveller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shown | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 tomb | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 tomb | det |
| 24 | tomb | tomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 boast | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Lewy | case |
| 26 | Lewy | Lewy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 tomb | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 blended | punct |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 veins | case |
| 29 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 30 veins | nmod:poss |
| 30 | veins | vein | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 blended | obl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 blood | det |
| 32 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 blended | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 Tuatha | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Tuatha | det |
| 35 | Tuatha | Tuatha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 blood | nmod |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 blended | aux:pass |
| 37 | blended | blend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 made | conj |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 that | case |
| 39 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 37 blended | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 pirates | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 pirates | det |
| 42 | earlier | early | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 44 pirates | amod |
| 43 | Fomorian | fomorian | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 pirates | compound |
| 44 | pirates | pirate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 that | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | might · perfect | Tuathan | boast of a huge sepulchral mound and the tomb of Lewy | the banks of the Boyne | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boast=Product | |||
| 2 | show | participle | a huge sepulchral mound not said here | the traveller | still | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to traveller=Recipient | |||
| 3 | blend | past · passive | the blood of the Tuatha | veins | with that of the earlier Fomorian pirates | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with that=Co-Patient | |||
| 4 | boast | a huge sepulchral mound | nom boast «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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