The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 41
To Eman’s gate They rode, and thrice beneath it blew their horn: Indifferent, yea, as one with either fate Alike content, she spake in careless scorn; ‘Omens the Druids find in bird and beast: A Druid I; a laughing one at least!
Who acts: boughs, gate, Omens, I · What happens: ride, blow, find, druid, laugh · To what, where: she spake, gate, horn, one, least
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 (boughs, gate, Omens, I), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 4 gate | case |
| 2 | Eman | Eman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gate | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 Eman | case |
| 4 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rode | obl |
| 5 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 rode | nsubj |
| 6 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thrice | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 thrice | cc |
| 9 | thrice | thrice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 rode | xcomp |
| 10 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 12 blew | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 blew | nsubj |
| 12 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 thrice | advcl |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 horn | nmod:poss |
| 14 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 blew | obj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 Indifferent | punct |
| 16 | Indifferent | indifferent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 rode | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 yea | punct |
| 18 | yea | yea | INTJ | _ | 6 rode | discourse |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 one | punct |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 one | case |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 rode | obl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 content | case |
| 23 | either | either | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 content | det |
| 24 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 content | compound |
| 25 | Alike | alike | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 content | amod |
| 26 | content | content | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 one | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 spake | punct |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 spake | compound |
| 29 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rode | obl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 scorn | case |
| 31 | careless | careless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 scorn | amod |
| 32 | scorn | scorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 spake | nmod |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 find | punct |
| 34 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 35 Omens | punct |
| 35 | Omens | omen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 find | nsubj |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Druids | det |
| 37 | Druids | druid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 Omens | conj |
| 38 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 rode | conj |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 bird | case |
| 40 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 find | obl |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 beast | cc |
| 42 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 bird | conj |
| 43 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 45 Druid | punct |
| 44 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 Druid | det |
| 45 | Druid | druid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rode | obl |
| 46 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 Druid | nsubj |
| 47 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 49 laughing | punct |
| 48 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 laughing | det |
| 49 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 rode | advcl |
| 50 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 49 laughing | obj |
| 51 | at | at | ADP | _ | 52 least | case |
| 52 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 50 one | nmod |
| 53 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | boughs = bough | she spake in careless scorn | Eman's gate | as one with either fate Alike content; thrice property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to gate=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | blow | past | gate | boughs's horn | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent horn=Patient | ||||
| 3 | find | present | Omens and the Druids | in bird and beast | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | druid | I | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | laugh | gerund | boughs = bough not said here | one | least | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
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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