The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 55
O noble Alba, Scotia later named, Then when the race of Scota and her Lord O’er all thy holy isles and highlands famed Had raised the Gaelic harp, the Gaelic sword, And Kenneth, Pictish rule extinguished, reared That throne of kings for centuries revered!
Who acts: race, Had, Kenneth, Scota · What happens: name, fame, raise, rear, revere, race · To what, where: Scotia, Gaelic harp, throne, centuries
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 (race, Had, Kenneth, Scota), 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 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 3 Alba | case |
| 2 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Alba | amod |
| 3 | Alba | Alba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 named | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Alba | punct |
| 5 | Scotia | Scotia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 named | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 named | advmod |
| 7 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 famed | punct |
| 9 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 famed | advmod |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 famed | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 race | det |
| 12 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 famed | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Scota | case |
| 14 | Scota | Scota | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 race | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 Lord | cc |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 Lord | nmod:poss |
| 17 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 race | conj |
| 18 | O’er | O'er | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Lord | flat |
| 19 | all | all | ADV | _ | 22 isles | advmod |
| 20 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 isles | nmod:poss |
| 21 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 isles | amod |
| 22 | isles | isle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 race | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 highlands | cc |
| 24 | highlands | highland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 isles | conj |
| 25 | famed | fame | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 named | parataxis |
| 26 | Had | Had | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 raised | nsubj |
| 27 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 famed | ccomp |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 harp | det |
| 29 | Gaelic | gaelic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 harp | amod |
| 30 | harp | harp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 raised | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 sword | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 sword | det |
| 33 | Gaelic | gaelic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 sword | amod |
| 34 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 harp | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 reared | punct |
| 36 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 reared | cc |
| 37 | Kenneth | Kenneth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 reared | nsubj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 rule | punct |
| 39 | Pictish | pictish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 rule | amod |
| 40 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 Kenneth | appos |
| 41 | extinguished | extinguished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 rule | amod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 Kenneth | punct |
| 43 | reared | rear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 famed | conj |
| 44 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 45 throne | det |
| 45 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 reared | obj |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 kings | case |
| 47 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 throne | nmod |
| 48 | for | for | ADP | _ | 49 centuries | case |
| 49 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 reared | obl |
| 50 | revered | revere | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 49 centuries | acl |
| 51 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 named | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | participle · passive | Scotia | of noble Alba; late property | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fame | past | the race of Scota thy holy isles and highlands and Scotia's Lord | then | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | raise | past | Had | the Gaelic harp and the Gaelic sword | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harp=Theme | ||||
| 4 | rear | past | Kenneth | that throne of kings | century | vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent throne=Patient | |||
| 5 | revere | participle | centuries not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | race | Scota | nom race «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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