The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 53
Scorning to make complaint, they scorned not less To share a traitor’s feast, and ate of nought, Waving each dish away in haughtiness, Save little loaves that with them they had brought.
Who acts: Scorning, warriors · What happens: make, scorn, share, eat, wave away, save · To what, where: complaint, less, feast, dish, little loaves, warriors
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 (Scorning, warriors), 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 | Scorning | scorning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | nsubj |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 make | mark |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | complaint | complaint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 scorned | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 scorned | nsubj |
| 7 | scorned | scorn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | conj |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 less | advmod |
| 9 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 scorned | obj |
| 10 | To | to | PART | _ | 11 share | mark |
| 11 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 scorned | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 traitor | det |
| 13 | traitor | traitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 feast | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 traitor | case |
| 15 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 share | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ate | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 ate | cc |
| 18 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | parataxis |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 nought | case |
| 20 | nought | nought | PRON | PronType=Neg | 18 ate | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Waving | punct |
| 22 | Waving | wave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 ate | advcl |
| 23 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 dish | det |
| 24 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Waving | obj |
| 25 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 Waving | advmod |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 haughtiness | case |
| 27 | haughtiness | haughtiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Waving | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Save | punct |
| 29 | Save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 make | conj |
| 30 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 loaves | amod |
| 31 | loaves | loaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 Save | obj |
| 32 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 brought | obj |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 them | case |
| 34 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 that | obl |
| 35 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 brought | aux |
| 37 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 loaves | acl:relcl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | to-infinitive | Scorning | complaint | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset complaint=Product | ||||
| 2 | scorn | past | warriors = warrior | less | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent less=Theme | ||||
| 3 | share | to-infinitive | warriors = warrior not said here | a traitor's feast | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | eat | past | of nought | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of nought=Source | |||||
| 5 | wave away | gerund | each dish | in haughtiness; away property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent dish=Patient in haughtiness=Theme | ||||
| 6 | save | infinitive | Scorning not said here | little loaves | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loaf=Theme | ||||
| 7 | bring | past · perfect · passive | warriors = warrior | little loaves obj | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination that=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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