The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 25
That eye, though young and sweet with such clear light, Had marshalled many a death-strewn battle-field; Had watched the meeting tides of many a fight; Taught many a proud, inviolate fort to yield.
Who acts: Had, many, many fight · What happens: marshall, watch, teach, fort, yield, tide · To what, where: eye, meeting tides
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Had, many, many fight), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 eye | det |
| 2 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 marshalled | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 young | punct |
| 4 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 5 young | mark |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 eye | amod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sweet | cc |
| 7 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 young | conj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 light | case |
| 9 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 light | amod |
| 10 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 light | amod |
| 11 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sweet | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 eye | punct |
| 13 | Had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 marshalled | aux |
| 14 | marshalled | marshall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 marshalled | obj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 field | det |
| 17 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 strewn | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 death | punct |
| 19 | strewn | strewn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 field | amod |
| 20 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 field | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 battle | punct |
| 22 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 many | advmod |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 watched | punct |
| 24 | Had | Had | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 watched | nsubj |
| 25 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 marshalled | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 tides | det |
| 27 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 tides | compound |
| 28 | tides | tide | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 watched | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 fight | case |
| 30 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 fight | amod |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 fight | det |
| 32 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 tides | nmod |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 Taught | punct |
| 34 | Taught | teach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 marshalled | parataxis |
| 35 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 fort | nsubj |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 fort | det |
| 37 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 fort | amod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 proud | punct |
| 39 | inviolate | inviolate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 fort | amod |
| 40 | fort | fort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 Taught | parataxis |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 yield | mark |
| 42 | yield | yield | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 fort | acl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 marshalled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marshall | past · perfect · passive | that eye | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | watch | past | Had | the meeting tides of a many fight | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tide=Theme | ||||
| 3 | teach speech: other | participle | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | fort | many | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | yield | to-infinitive | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | tide | a many fight | nom tide «event intransitive»: of=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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