The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 7
Doubt bred new doubt:--away the False One strode; But Fergus still mused on, and never stirred, His royal head depressed and neck embowed; At last he turned to Naisi with this word, ‘What must I do?’
Who acts: Doubt, Fergus, I · What happens: breed, muse on, not stir, embow, turn, do · To what, where: new doubt, royal head, Naisi, last
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 (Doubt, Fergus, 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 | Doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bred | nsubj |
| 2 | bred | breed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 doubt | amod |
| 4 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bred | obj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 bred | punct |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 strode | punct |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 strode | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 strode | det |
| 9 | False | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 strode | amod |
| 10 | One | One | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 strode | compound |
| 11 | strode | strode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bred | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 mused | punct |
| 13 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 mused | cc |
| 14 | Fergus | Fergus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 mused | nsubj |
| 15 | still | still | ADV | _ | 16 mused | advmod |
| 16 | mused | muse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 bred | parataxis |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 mused | compound:prt |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 stirred | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 stirred | cc |
| 20 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 21 stirred | advmod |
| 21 | stirred | stir | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 mused | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 head | punct |
| 23 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 head | nmod:poss |
| 24 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 head | amod |
| 25 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 stirred | obl |
| 26 | depressed | depressed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 head | amod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 neck | cc |
| 28 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 head | conj |
| 29 | embowed | embow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 head | acl |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 turned | punct |
| 31 | At | at | ADP | _ | 32 last | case |
| 32 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 turned | obl |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 turned | nsubj |
| 34 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bred | parataxis |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 Naisi | case |
| 36 | Naisi | Naisi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 turned | obl |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 word | case |
| 38 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 39 word | det |
| 39 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 turned | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 do | punct |
| 41 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 45 do | punct |
| 42 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 45 do | obj |
| 43 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 do | aux |
| 44 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 do | nsubj |
| 45 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 turned | conj |
| 46 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 45 do | punct |
| 47 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 45 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | breed | past | Doubt | new doubt | the False One strode obl | tree rules | |||
| 2 | muse on | participle | Fergus | still | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not stir | participle | Fergus not said here | Fergus's royal head and neck | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | embow | participle | Fergus's royal head and neck not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | turn | past | Fergus | Naisi | last | with this word | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at last=Trajectory | ||
| 6 | do | must | I | What obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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