The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 47
She told how first, from regions of the morn With black-sailed ships stemming the ocean tide To Erin’s forest, yet of men forlorn, Came Partholan, the Grecian Parricide: And how the ill race had perished.
Who acts: child, sailed ships · What happens: tell, sail, stem, perish · To what, where: regions, ocean tide, ill race · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, sailed ships), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 first | advmod |
| 4 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 2 told | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 regions | punct |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 regions | case |
| 7 | regions | region | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 told | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 morn | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 morn | det |
| 10 | morn | morn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 regions | nmod |
| 11 | With | with | ADP | _ | 15 ships | case |
| 12 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sailed | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 black | punct |
| 14 | sailed | sail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 ships | amod |
| 15 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 regions | nmod |
| 16 | stemming | stem | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 ships | acl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tide | det |
| 18 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tide | compound |
| 19 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stemming | obj |
| 20 | To | to | ADP | _ | 23 forest | case |
| 21 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 forest | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 Erin | case |
| 23 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stemming | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 forlorn | punct |
| 25 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 28 forlorn | cc |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 men | case |
| 27 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 forlorn | obl |
| 28 | forlorn | forlorn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 told | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Came | punct |
| 30 | Came | Came | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 forlorn | obl |
| 31 | Partholan | Partholan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Came | flat |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 Parricide | punct |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Parricide | det |
| 34 | Grecian | grecian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 Parricide | amod |
| 35 | Parricide | parricide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 Came | conj |
| 36 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 43 perished | punct |
| 37 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 perished | cc |
| 38 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 43 perished | advmod |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 race | det |
| 40 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 race | amod |
| 41 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 perished | nsubj:pass |
| 42 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 perished | aux |
| 43 | perished | perish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 told | parataxis |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | child | regions of the morn with sailed ships | first property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | sail | participle | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | stem | gerund | sailed ships not said here | the ocean tide | to Erin's forest | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tide=Theme | |||
| 4 | perish | past · perfect · passive | the ill race | tree rules |
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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