The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 99
And gat him down, and drew a host, and drave Southward that seething mass a mile and more, As when the wind before it drives the wave; And shouted, ‘traitors’ still; and slew six score.
Who acts: you, wind · What happens: gat down, draw, drave, seethe, drive, shout · To what, where: whoe’er, host, Southward, mass, wave, traitors
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, wind), 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 drew | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 drew | cc |
| 7 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gat | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 host | det |
| 9 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drew | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 drave | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 drave | cc |
| 12 | drave | drave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 gat | conj |
| 13 | Southward | Southward | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 drave | obj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 seething | mark |
| 15 | seething | seethe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 drave | advcl |
| 16 | mass | mass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seething | obj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 mile | det |
| 18 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seething | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 more | cc |
| 20 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 mile | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 drives | punct |
| 22 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 drives | mark |
| 23 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 28 drives | mark |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 wind | det |
| 25 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 drives | nsubj |
| 26 | before | before | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 wind | nmod |
| 28 | drives | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 drave | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 wave | det |
| 30 | wave | wave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 drives | obj |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 shouted | punct |
| 32 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 shouted | cc |
| 33 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gat | parataxis |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 traitors | punct |
| 35 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 36 traitors | punct |
| 36 | traitors | traitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 shouted | obj |
| 37 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 36 traitors | punct |
| 38 | still | still | ADV | _ | 36 traitors | advmod |
| 39 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 slew | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 slew | cc |
| 41 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 shouted | conj |
| 42 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 43 score | nummod |
| 43 | score | score | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 slew | obj |
| 44 | . | . | 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 | whoe’er = whoe'er | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | draw | past | you not said here | a host | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent host=Theme | ||||
| 3 | drave | infinitive | you not said here | Southward | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | seethe | gerund | you not said here | mass | a mile obj | tree rules | |||
| 5 | drive | present | the wind before mile | the wave | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme wave=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | shout speech: express | past | traitors | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent traitor=Topic | |||||
| 7 | slay | past | six score | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent score=Patient |
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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