The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 104
Some say that race of old from Greece exiled Long time had sojourned in the frozen North Roaming Norwegian wood and Danish wild: To Erin thence more late they issued forth, And thither brought two gifts both loved and feared, The ‘Lia Fail,’ and Ogham lore revered.
Who acts: Some, woods, two gifts · What happens: say, exile, sojourn, freeze, roam, issue · To what, where: frozen Roaming Norwegian wood, Ogham lore · 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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Some, woods, two gifts), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 say | nsubj |
| 2 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 old | mark |
| 4 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 old | advmod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 race | fixed |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 exiled | advcl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 Greece | case |
| 8 | Greece | Greece | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 old | obl |
| 9 | exiled | exile | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 say | ccomp |
| 10 | Long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 time | amod |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sojourned | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 sojourned | aux |
| 13 | sojourned | sojourn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 exiled | ccomp |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 wood | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 wood | det |
| 16 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 wood | amod |
| 17 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 wood | nsubj |
| 18 | Roaming | roam | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 wood | amod |
| 19 | Norwegian | Norwegian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 wood | amod |
| 20 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sojourned | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 wild | cc |
| 22 | Danish | danish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 wild | amod |
| 23 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 wood | conj |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 29 late | punct |
| 25 | To | to | ADP | _ | 26 Erin | case |
| 26 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 late | obl |
| 27 | thence | thence | ADV | _ | 29 late | advmod |
| 28 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 29 late | advmod |
| 29 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 say | parataxis |
| 30 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 issued | nsubj |
| 31 | issued | issue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 late | conj |
| 32 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 31 issued | advmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 brought | punct |
| 34 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 brought | cc |
| 35 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 36 brought | advmod |
| 36 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 late | conj |
| 37 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 gifts | nummod |
| 38 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 loved | nsubj |
| 39 | both | both | ADV | _ | 40 loved | advmod |
| 40 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 brought | ccomp |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 feared | cc |
| 42 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 loved | conj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 Fail | punct |
| 44 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 Fail | det |
| 45 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 46 Lia | punct |
| 46 | Lia | Lia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 Fail | compound |
| 47 | Fail | Fail | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 late | parataxis |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 Fail | punct |
| 49 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 late | punct |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 lore | cc |
| 51 | Ogham | Ogham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 52 lore | compound |
| 52 | lore | lore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 late | conj |
| 53 | revered | revere | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 52 lore | acl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Some | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | exile | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | sojourn | past · perfect | the frozen Roaming Norwegian wood North | time | vn weekend-56 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location | ||||
| 4 | freeze | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | roam | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | issue | past | woods = wood | forth property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | bring | past | Some not said here | thither property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | love | past | two gifts | both property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 9 | fear | past | two gifts not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 10 | revere | participle | Ogham lore not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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