The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 101
There, girt by chiefs sat Conor on his throne With cloudy brows, and pale lips ridged in scorn, Who thus addressed Fiacre, his first-born son; ‘Son, thou and he the self-same hour were born, Illan--the man that from this head even now Sweeps Uladh’s crown!
Who acts: chiefs, scorn, whoe’er, Son, man, Uladh · What happens: girt, sit, ridge, address, bear, hour · To what, where: pale lips, Conor, throne, scorn, Fiacre, thou
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chiefs, scorn, whoe’er, Son), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 girt | expl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 girt | punct |
| 3 | girt | girt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 6 sat | mark |
| 5 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sat | nsubj |
| 6 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 girt | advcl |
| 7 | Conor | Conor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sat | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 throne | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 throne | nmod:poss |
| 10 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sat | obl |
| 11 | With | with | ADP | _ | 13 brows | case |
| 12 | cloudy | cloudy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 brows | amod |
| 13 | brows | brow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sat | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lips | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 lips | cc |
| 16 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 lips | amod |
| 17 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 girt | obl |
| 18 | ridged | ridge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 lips | acl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 scorn | case |
| 20 | scorn | scorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ridged | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 addressed | punct |
| 22 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 addressed | nsubj |
| 23 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 24 addressed | advmod |
| 24 | addressed | address | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 scorn | acl:relcl |
| 25 | Fiacre | Fiacre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 addressed | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 son | punct |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 son | nmod:poss |
| 28 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 30 born | amod |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 first | punct |
| 30 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 son | amod |
| 31 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Fiacre | appos |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 Son | punct |
| 33 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 34 Son | punct |
| 34 | Son | Son | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 girt | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 thou | punct |
| 36 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 45 born | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 hour | cc |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 hour | nsubj |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 hour | det |
| 40 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 hour | compound |
| 41 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 self | punct |
| 42 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 hour | amod |
| 43 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 thou | conj |
| 44 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 born | aux:pass |
| 45 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 Son | acl:relcl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 Illan | punct |
| 47 | Illan | Illan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Son | appos |
| 48 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 50 man | punct |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 man | det |
| 50 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 Son | appos |
| 51 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 57 Sweeps | nsubj |
| 52 | from | from | ADP | _ | 54 head | case |
| 53 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 54 head | det |
| 54 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 Sweeps | obl |
| 55 | even | even | ADV | _ | 57 Sweeps | advmod |
| 56 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 57 Sweeps | advmod |
| 57 | Sweeps | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 50 man | acl:relcl |
| 58 | Uladh | Uladh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 60 crown | nmod:poss |
| 59 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 58 Uladh | case |
| 60 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 Sweeps | obj |
| 61 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 girt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | girt | infinitive | pale lips | there | Son obl | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sit | past | chiefs | Conor | whoe’er's throne | with cloudy brows | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent conor=Theme on throne=Location | ||
| 3 | ridge | participle | pale lips not said here | scorn | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | address | past | scorn | Fiacre | thus property | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fiacre=Destination | |||
| 5 | bear | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 6 | hour | whoe’er = whoe'er | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | bear | past · passive | Son not said here | thou | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 8 | sweep | present | the man | Uladh's crown | this head | now | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent crown=Theme from head=Trajectory | ||
| 9 | crown | Uladh | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=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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