The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 108
The invaders took no heed, But dashed through dark their galleys on the strand; Then clapped their hands, and laughing leaped to land.
Who acts: invaders · What happens: take, dash, clap, laugh, leap · To what, where: heed, dark galleys, hands
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 (invaders), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 invaders | det |
| 2 | invaders | invader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 heed | det |
| 5 | heed | heed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dashed | punct |
| 7 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 dashed | cc |
| 8 | dashed | dash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 galleys | case |
| 10 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 galleys | amod |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 galleys | nmod:poss |
| 12 | galleys | galley | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 dashed | obl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 strand | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 strand | det |
| 15 | strand | strand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 galleys | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 clapped | punct |
| 17 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 clapped | advmod |
| 18 | clapped | clap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | parataxis |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 hands | nmod:poss |
| 20 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 clapped | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 leaped | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 leaped | cc |
| 23 | laughing | laugh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 leaped | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 clapped | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 land | case |
| 26 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 leaped | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the invaders | no heed | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dash | past | the invaders not said here | invaders's dark galleys on the strand | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through galley=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | clap | past | invaders's hands | then | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme | ||||
| 4 | laugh | gerund | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | leap | participle · passive | to land | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |
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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