The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 50
This therefore was the order of their going: A hundred warriors marching in the van; A hundred maidens next with veils loose flowing; A hundred clansmen next of Usnach’s clan, And each a greyhound leading in a cord; Swiftly with these they trod the moonlit sward.
Who acts: This, lovers, hundred warriors, order, greyhound · What happens: be, go, march, flow, lead, tread · To what, where: order, van, moonlit sward
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 (This, lovers, hundred warriors, order), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 order | nsubj |
| 2 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 5 order | advmod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 order | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 order | det |
| 5 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 going | mark |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 going | nsubj |
| 8 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 order | acl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 warriors | punct |
| 10 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 hundred | det |
| 11 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 warriors | nummod |
| 12 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 going | parataxis |
| 13 | marching | march | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 warriors | acl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 van | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 van | det |
| 16 | van | van | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 marching | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 maidens | punct |
| 18 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 hundred | det |
| 19 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 maidens | nummod |
| 20 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 order | appos |
| 21 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 maidens | amod |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 veils | case |
| 23 | veils | veil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 next | obl |
| 24 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 veils | amod |
| 25 | flowing | flow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 loose | xcomp |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 clansmen | punct |
| 27 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 hundred | det |
| 28 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 clansmen | nummod |
| 29 | clansmen | clansman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 maidens | conj |
| 30 | next | next | ADP | _ | 34 clan | case |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 clan | case |
| 32 | Usnach | Usnach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 clan | nmod:poss |
| 33 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 32 Usnach | case |
| 34 | clan | clan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 clansmen | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 greyhound | punct |
| 36 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 greyhound | cc |
| 37 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 39 greyhound | det |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 greyhound | det |
| 39 | greyhound | greyhound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 clansmen | conj |
| 40 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 39 greyhound | acl |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 cord | case |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 cord | det |
| 43 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 leading | obl |
| 44 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 49 trod | punct |
| 45 | Swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 49 trod | advmod |
| 46 | with | with | ADP | _ | 47 these | case |
| 47 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 45 Swiftly | obl |
| 48 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 trod | nsubj |
| 49 | trod | tread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 order | conj |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 sward | det |
| 51 | moonlit | moonlit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 sward | amod |
| 52 | sward | sward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 trod | obj |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 order | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | the order | hundred maidens and hundred clansmen next Usnach's clan and each greyhound appos; therefore property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go | gerund | lovers = lover | the order not said here | hundred warriors parataxis | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location order=Theme | |||
| 3 | march | gerund | hundred warriors not said here | the van | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in van=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | flow | gerund | the order not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | lead | gerund | each greyhound not said here | in a cord | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition in cord=Patient | ||||
| 6 | tread | past | lovers = lover | the moonlit sward | swiftly property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location sward=Theme |
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/pg78491/4/50/