The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 88
Victory’s sun Full-orbed that April on their banners played: A third part of the realm their valour won: Last, with the Picts alliance firm they made, And making kept.
Who acts: April, valour, anon · What happens: orb, play, win, make, keep · To what, where: sun, realm, alliance firm
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 (April, valour, anon), 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 | Victory | victory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sun | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 1 Victory | case |
| 3 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 orbed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | Full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 orbed | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Full | punct |
| 6 | orbed | orb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 played | mark |
| 8 | April | April | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 played | nsubj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 banners | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 banners | nmod:poss |
| 11 | banners | banner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 April | nmod |
| 12 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 orbed | advcl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 part | punct |
| 14 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 part | det |
| 15 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 part | amod |
| 16 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 orbed | parataxis |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 realm | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 realm | det |
| 19 | realm | realm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 part | nmod |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 valour | nmod:poss |
| 21 | valour | valour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 won | nsubj |
| 22 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 realm | acl:relcl |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 Last | punct |
| 24 | Last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 part | parataxis |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 firm | punct |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 firm | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Picts | det |
| 28 | Picts | Pict | PROPN | Number=Plur | 30 firm | nmod:poss |
| 29 | alliance | alliance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 firm | compound |
| 30 | firm | firm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Last | conj |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 made | nsubj |
| 32 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 firm | acl:relcl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 kept | punct |
| 34 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 kept | cc |
| 35 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 kept | aux:pass |
| 36 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 orbed | parataxis |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 orbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | orb | participle · passive | Victory's sun | a third part of the realm parataxis | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | play | past | April on anon's banners | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | win | past | anon's valour | the realm not said here | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent realm=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | make | past | anon | the Picts's alliance firm not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset firm=Product | ||||
| 5 | keep | gerund · passive | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP» |
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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