The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 64

Then Deirdré: ‘Nay, but from some rock-girt field Loud-voiced the shepherd bids his mates rejoice: Some boar is slain, or wolf that vexed the land; Play on!’

Who acts: some, field, Deirdré, mates, boar, wolf · What happens: girt, voice, bid, rejoice, be, vex · To what, where: field, shepherd, land

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 (some, field, Deirdré, mates), 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	2 Deirdré	advmod
2	Deirdré	Deirdré	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 bids	nsubj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 Deirdré	punct
4	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Deirdré	punct
5	Nay	nay	INTJ	_	2 Deirdré	discourse
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 girt	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 girt	cc
8	from	from	SCONJ	_	12 girt	mark
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 girt	nsubj
10	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 girt	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 rock	punct
12	girt	girt	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Deirdré	conj
13	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 girt	obj
14	Loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 voiced	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 Loud	punct
16	voiced	voice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 field	acl:relcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 shepherd	det
18	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 voiced	obj
19	bids	bid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 mates	nmod:poss
21	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 rejoice	nsubj
22	rejoice	rejoice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 bids	ccomp
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 slain	punct
24	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 boar	det
25	boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 slain	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 slain	cop
27	slain	slain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 bids	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 wolf	punct
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 wolf	cc
30	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 slain	appos
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 vexed	nsubj
32	vexed	vex	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 wolf	acl:relcl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 land	det
34	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 vexed	obj
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 Play	punct
36	Play	play	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	19 bids	parataxis
37	on	on	ADP	_	36 Play	compound:prt
38	!	!	PUNCT	_	36 Play	punct
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	36 Play	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	girt	infinitive	some	field	rock compound	tree rules
2	voice speech: other	participle	field not said here	the shepherd		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent shepherd=Topic
3	bid	present	Deirdré			tree rules
4	rejoice	present	shepherd's mates			vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	present	some boar		wolf appos; slain property	tree rules
6	vex	past	wolf	the land		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus land=Experiencer
7	play on	infinitive				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 64

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The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 64