The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 87
‘Long time, methinks, at feast doth Fergus tarry-- Good speed for that crowned hawk which hangs on high With beak turned downward t’ward his skiey quarry!’
Who acts: Fergus, crowned hawk · What happens: do, speed, crown, hang, turn · To what, where: feast, high
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 (Fergus, crowned hawk), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 2 | Long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 time | amod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 doth | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 methinks | punct |
| 5 | methinks | methink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 time | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 feast | case |
| 8 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 doth | obl |
| 9 | doth | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Fergus | Fergus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 speed | nsubj |
| 11 | tarry | tarry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 speed | amod |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 tarry | punct |
| 13 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 speed | amod |
| 14 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 doth | ccomp |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 hawk | case |
| 16 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 hawk | det |
| 17 | crowned | crown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 hawk | amod |
| 18 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 speed | nmod |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 hangs | nsubj |
| 20 | hangs | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 hawk | acl:relcl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 high | case |
| 22 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 hangs | obl |
| 23 | With | with | ADP | _ | 24 beak | case |
| 24 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hangs | obl |
| 25 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 hangs | advcl |
| 26 | downward | downward | ADV | _ | 25 turned | advmod |
| 27 | t’ward | t'ward | ADP | _ | 30 quarry | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 quarry | nmod:poss |
| 29 | skiey | skiey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 quarry | amod |
| 30 | quarry | quarry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 turned | obl |
| 31 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 speed | punct |
| 32 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 doth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | feast | time | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | speed | Fergus | for that crowned hawk | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | crown | participle | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | hang | present | that crowned hawk | high | with beak | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on high=Location | |||
| 5 | turn | participle | that crowned hawk not said here | t'ward Fergus's skiey quarry; downward property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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