The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 91
Save that the Uladh nobles where they stood The king forestalling, hurled abroad their cry; ‘She must not live!’
Who acts: you, Uladh nobles, king, death, kings · What happens: save, stand, forestall, hurl, not live, cry · To what, where: king, cry
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 (you, Uladh nobles, king, death), 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 | Save | save | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 stood | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 nobles | det |
| 4 | Uladh | Uladh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 nobles | compound |
| 5 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 stood | nsubj |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 stood | advmod |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 stood | nsubj |
| 8 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Save | advcl |
| 9 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stood | obj |
| 11 | forestalling | forestall | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 king | acl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hurled | punct |
| 13 | hurled | hurl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 forestalling | obj |
| 14 | abroad | abroad | ADV | _ | 13 hurled | advmod |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 cry | nmod:poss |
| 16 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hurled | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 live | punct |
| 18 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 live | punct |
| 19 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 live | nsubj |
| 20 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 live | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 live | advmod |
| 22 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Save | conj |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Save | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Save | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | imperative | you not said here | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | stand | past | the Uladh nobles | the king | nobles = noble nsubj | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer king=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | forestall | gerund | the king not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | hurl | participle | kings's cry | abroad property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not live | must | death | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | cry | kings = king | nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=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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