The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 76
Sudden to Felim’s seat a woman rushed, An ancient nurse with wrinkled face and worn Clamouring, her hands upheld and forehead flushed, ‘Felim, rejoice! for lo, thy babe is born!
Who acts: hands · What happens: rush, wrinkle, uphold, flush, rejoice, bear · To what, where: woman, forehead, Felim, babe
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 (hands), 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 | Sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 seat | case |
| 3 | Felim | Felim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 seat | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 Felim | case |
| 5 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sudden | obl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 woman | det |
| 7 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seat | appos |
| 8 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 woman | acl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 nurse | punct |
| 10 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 nurse | det |
| 11 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 nurse | amod |
| 12 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 woman | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 face | case |
| 14 | wrinkled | wrinkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 face | amod |
| 15 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 nurse | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Clamouring | cc |
| 17 | worn | worn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Clamouring | amod |
| 18 | Clamouring | Clamouring | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 face | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 upheld | punct |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 hands | nmod:poss |
| 21 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 upheld | nsubj |
| 22 | upheld | uphold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 nurse | parataxis |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 forehead | cc |
| 24 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 upheld | obj |
| 25 | flushed | flush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 upheld | xcomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Felim | punct |
| 27 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 Felim | punct |
| 28 | Felim | Felim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 flushed | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 rejoice | punct |
| 30 | rejoice | rejoice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 upheld | conj |
| 31 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 30 rejoice | punct |
| 32 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 38 born | mark |
| 33 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 38 born | discourse |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 lo | punct |
| 35 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 36 babe | nmod:poss |
| 36 | babe | babe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 born | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 born | aux:pass |
| 38 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 rejoice | advcl |
| 39 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sudden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | participle | a woman and a ancient nurse with wrinkled face and worn Clamouring not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | wrinkle | participle | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | uphold | past | Felim's hands | forehead | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | flush | participle | Felim's hands not said here | Felim | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | rejoice | present | Felim's hands not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | bear | present · passive | thy babe | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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