The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 51
From far Espán His dauntless sons led forth the Gaedil clan.’
Who acts: dauntless sons · What happens: lead · To what, where: Gaedil clan, dauntless sons
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 (dauntless sons), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 2 far | case |
| 2 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 sons | advmod |
| 3 | Espán | Espán | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 far | nsubj |
| 4 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sons | nmod:poss |
| 5 | dauntless | dauntless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sons | amod |
| 6 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 sons | acl |
| 8 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 7 led | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 clan | det |
| 10 | Gaedil | Gaedil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 clan | compound |
| 11 | clan | clan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 led | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sons | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 sons | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | participle | Espán's dauntless sons not said here | the Gaedil clan | forth property | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
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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