The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 79
And, lest the sun should dazzle Deirdré’s eyes, Westward that morn their pilgrimage began: First, under standards bright with myriad dyes, A hundred Usnach warriors led the van: Maids next: then clansmen, holding, each, a hound That strained against the leash with bark and bound.
Who acts: sun, eyes, pilgrimage, standards, clansmen, hound · What happens: dazzle, morn, begin, lead, hold, strain · To what, where: eyes, van, hound
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 (sun, eyes, pilgrimage, standards), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 dazzle | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dazzle | punct |
| 3 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 7 dazzle | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sun | det |
| 5 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dazzle | nsubj |
| 6 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 dazzle | aux |
| 7 | dazzle | dazzle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 led | advcl |
| 8 | Deirdré | Deirdré | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 Deirdré | case |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 dazzle | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Westward | punct |
| 12 | Westward | westward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 eyes | amod |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 morn | nsubj |
| 14 | morn | morn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 eyes | acl:relcl |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 pilgrimage | nmod:poss |
| 16 | pilgrimage | pilgrimage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 began | nsubj |
| 17 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 morn | ccomp |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 First | punct |
| 19 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 dazzle | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 standards | punct |
| 21 | under | under | ADP | _ | 22 standards | case |
| 22 | standards | standard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 led | nsubj |
| 23 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 standards | amod |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 dyes | case |
| 25 | myriad | myriad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 dyes | compound |
| 26 | dyes | dye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 bright | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 warriors | punct |
| 28 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 hundred | det |
| 29 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 warriors | nummod |
| 30 | Usnach | Usnach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 warriors | compound |
| 31 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 dyes | conj |
| 32 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 van | det |
| 34 | van | van | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 led | obj |
| 35 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 36 Maids | punct |
| 36 | Maids | Maid | PROPN | Number=Plur | 34 van | appos |
| 37 | next | next | ADV | _ | 36 Maids | advmod |
| 38 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 40 clansmen | punct |
| 39 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 40 clansmen | advmod |
| 40 | clansmen | clansman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 led | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 holding | punct |
| 42 | holding | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 40 clansmen | acl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 each | punct |
| 44 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 47 hound | det |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 hound | punct |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 hound | det |
| 47 | hound | hound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 clansmen | conj |
| 48 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 49 strained | nsubj |
| 49 | strained | strain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 hound | acl:relcl |
| 50 | against | against | ADP | _ | 52 leash | case |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 leash | det |
| 52 | leash | leash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 strained | obl |
| 53 | with | with | ADP | _ | 54 bark | case |
| 54 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 leash | nmod |
| 55 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 bound | cc |
| 56 | bound | bound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 bark | conj |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 32 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dazzle | should | the sun | Deirdré's eyes | first property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus eye=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | morn | present | Deirdré's eyes | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | begin | past | brothers's pilgrimage | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | lead | past | standards | the van | clansmen and each hound obl | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent van=Theme | |||
| 5 | hold | gerund | clansmen and each hound not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | strain | past | each hound | each hound not said here | against the leash with bark and bound | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent hound=Source |
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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