The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 81
Meantime the natives of those lonely regions Came fiercely forth from many a distant shore Though worsted oft, in ever thickening legions, Till now the foray swelled into the war; And still there flocked from Uladh’s coast in swarms Her noblest youth, their great one’s mates in arms.
Who acts: you, distant shore, foray · What happens: meantime, worst, thicken, swell, flock · To what, where: natives, many, legions, war, coast
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 (you, distant shore, foray), 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 | Meantime | meantime | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 natives | det |
| 3 | natives | native | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Meantime | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 regions | case |
| 5 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 regions | det |
| 6 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 regions | amod |
| 7 | regions | region | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 natives | nmod |
| 8 | Came | come | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 fiercely | advmod |
| 9 | fiercely | fiercely | ADV | _ | 1 Meantime | advmod |
| 10 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 12 many | advmod |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 many | case |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Meantime | obl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 shore | det |
| 14 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 shore | amod |
| 15 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 worsted | nsubj |
| 16 | Though | though | ADV | _ | 17 worsted | advmod |
| 17 | worsted | worst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 many | parataxis |
| 18 | oft | oft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 worsted | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 thickening | punct |
| 20 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 22 thickening | mark |
| 21 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 22 thickening | advmod |
| 22 | thickening | thicken | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 worsted | advcl |
| 23 | legions | legion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 thickening | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 swelled | punct |
| 25 | Till | till | SCONJ | _ | 29 swelled | mark |
| 26 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 swelled | advmod |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 foray | det |
| 28 | foray | foray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 swelled | nsubj |
| 29 | swelled | swell | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 thickening | conj |
| 30 | into | into | ADP | _ | 32 war | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 war | det |
| 32 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 swelled | obl |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 flocked | punct |
| 34 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 flocked | cc |
| 35 | still | still | ADV | _ | 36 there | advmod |
| 36 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 37 flocked | advmod |
| 37 | flocked | flock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Meantime | conj |
| 38 | from | from | ADP | _ | 41 coast | case |
| 39 | Uladh | Uladh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 coast | nmod:poss |
| 40 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 39 Uladh | case |
| 41 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 flocked | obl |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 swarms | case |
| 43 | swarms | swarm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 flocked | obl |
| 44 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 youth | nmod:poss |
| 45 | noblest | noble | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 46 youth | amod |
| 46 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 swarms | nmod |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 mates | punct |
| 48 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 one | nmod:poss |
| 49 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 one | amod |
| 50 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 mates | nmod:poss |
| 51 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 50 one | case |
| 52 | mates | mate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 swarms | conj |
| 53 | in | in | ADP | _ | 54 arms | case |
| 54 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 52 mates | nmod |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Meantime | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meantime | imperative | you not said here | the natives of that lonely regions | many | fiercely property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | worst | past | a distant shore | oft, though property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | thicken | gerund | a distant shore not said here | legions | ever | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent legion=Patient | |||
| 4 | swell | past | the foray | the war | now | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 5 | flock | participle | you not said here | Uladh's coast; there | still | in swarms shore's noblest youth and brothers's great one's mates in arms | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=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.
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