The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 72
No hounds they need! alone they chase, each morn, The stag, and downward drag him head and horn!
Who acts: hounds, treads, downward · What happens: need, chase, drag · To what, where: morn
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 (hounds, treads, downward), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 hounds | det |
| 2 | hounds | hound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 need | nsubj |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 need | nsubj |
| 4 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 need | punct |
| 6 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 8 chase | advmod |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 chase | nsubj |
| 8 | chase | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 need | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 morn | punct |
| 10 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 morn | det |
| 11 | morn | morn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 chase | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stag | punct |
| 13 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 stag | det |
| 14 | stag | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 morn | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 drag | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 drag | cc |
| 17 | downward | downward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 drag | nsubj |
| 18 | drag | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 need | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 drag | obj |
| 20 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 drag | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 horn | cc |
| 22 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 head | conj |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 need | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | no hounds | treads = tread nsubj | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | chase | present | treads = tread | each morn and the stag | alone property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent morn=Theme | |||
| 3 | drag | present | downward | morn | head and horn obj | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/3/72/