The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 89
And gat him down; and shouted Fergus’ name: And straight a host around him flocking came.
Who acts: you, host, name, Fergus · What happens: gat down, shout, flock, come, name · To what, where: sire · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, host, name, Fergus), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 gat | cc |
| 2 | gat | gat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gat | obj |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 gat | compound:prt |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 shouted | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 shouted | cc |
| 7 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gat | conj |
| 8 | Fergus | Fergus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 name | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 8 Fergus | case |
| 10 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 came | nsubj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 host | punct |
| 12 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 host | cc |
| 13 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 15 host | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 host | det |
| 15 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 came | nsubj |
| 16 | around | around | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 host | nmod |
| 18 | flocking | flock | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 host | acl |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 shouted | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gat down | imperative | you not said here | sire | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shout speech: express | past | you not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | flock | gerund | a host around sire not said here | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | come | past | Fergus's name | a host around sire nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | name | Fergus | nom name «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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