The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 63
Once more abroad the cry of Fergus pealed; And Naisi cried: ‘Our Erin nursed that voice!’
Who acts: cry, Naisi, Erin, Fergus · What happens: peal, cry, nurse
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 (cry, Naisi, Erin, Fergus), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 more | advmod |
| 2 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 abroad | advmod |
| 3 | abroad | abroad | ADV | _ | 8 pealed | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cry | det |
| 5 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pealed | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Fergus | case |
| 7 | Fergus | Fergus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 cry | nmod |
| 8 | pealed | peal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 cried | punct |
| 10 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 cried | cc |
| 11 | Naisi | Naisi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 cried | nsubj |
| 12 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 pealed | conj |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 nursed | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 nursed | punct |
| 15 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 Erin | nmod:poss |
| 16 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 nursed | nsubj |
| 17 | nursed | nurse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 cried | conj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 voice | mark |
| 19 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 nursed | advcl |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 cried | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 pealed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | peal | past | the cry of Fergus | abroad property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Naisi | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | nurse | past | Our Erin | voice advcl | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | cry | Fergus | nom cry «communication 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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