The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 23
Then the vast acclaim Burst louder thrice from that exulting host; And thus they cried; ‘We feared the royal blame, And therefore hid our counsel; but that morn Those Three return, old Uladh stands re-born.’
Who acts: vast acclaim, sons, We, morn · What happens: burst, exult, cry, fear, hide, stand · To what, where: thrice, exulting host, royal blame, counsel, re-born
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (vast acclaim, sons, We, morn), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 Burst | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 acclaim | det |
| 3 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 acclaim | amod |
| 4 | acclaim | acclaim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Burst | nsubj |
| 5 | Burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | louder | loud | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 thrice | advmod |
| 7 | thrice | thrice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Burst | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 host | case |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 host | det |
| 10 | exulting | exult | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 host | amod |
| 11 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Burst | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 cried | punct |
| 13 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 cried | cc |
| 14 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 16 cried | advmod |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 cried | nsubj |
| 16 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Burst | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 feared | punct |
| 18 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 feared | punct |
| 19 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 feared | nsubj |
| 20 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 cried | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 blame | det |
| 22 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 blame | amod |
| 23 | blame | blame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 feared | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 hid | punct |
| 25 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 hid | cc |
| 26 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 27 hid | advmod |
| 27 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 cried | conj |
| 28 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 counsel | nmod:poss |
| 29 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hid | obj |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 stands | punct |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 40 stands | cc |
| 32 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 morn | det |
| 33 | morn | morn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 stands | nsubj |
| 34 | Those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 36 return | det |
| 35 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 return | nummod |
| 36 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 stands | nsubj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 Uladh | punct |
| 38 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 Uladh | amod |
| 39 | Uladh | Uladh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 return | appos |
| 40 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Burst | conj |
| 41 | re-born | re-born | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 stands | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 40 stands | punct |
| 43 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 40 stands | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burst | past | the vast acclaim | thrice | that exulting host | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thrice=Theme | ||
| 2 | exult | gerund | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | sons = son | thus property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | fear | past | We | the royal blame | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blame=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | hide | past | sons = son not said here | our counsel | therefore property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Patient | |||
| 6 | stand | present | that morn | re-born | that Three return nsubj | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer re-born=Stimulus |
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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