The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 109
Around them flocked Tuatha’s race in guile, Unarmed, with mocking voice and furtive mien, And scoffed: ‘Not thus your fathers fought erewhile!
Who acts: invaders, fathers, Tuatha · What happens: flock, mock, scoff, fight, race · To what, where: race, guile, voice, erewhile
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, fathers, Tuatha), 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 | Around | around | ADP | _ | 3 flocked | mark |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 flocked | nsubj |
| 3 | flocked | flock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 scoffed | advcl |
| 4 | Tuatha | Tuatha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 race | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Tuatha | case |
| 6 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flocked | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 guile | case |
| 8 | guile | guile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 race | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Unarmed | punct |
| 10 | Unarmed | unarmed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 race | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 mocking | punct |
| 12 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 13 mocking | mark |
| 13 | mocking | mock | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 flocked | advcl |
| 14 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mocking | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 mien | cc |
| 16 | furtive | furtive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 mien | amod |
| 17 | mien | mien | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 voice | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 scoffed | punct |
| 19 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 scoffed | cc |
| 20 | scoffed | scoff | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 fought | punct |
| 22 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 fought | punct |
| 23 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 thus | advmod |
| 24 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 27 fought | advmod |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 fathers | nmod:poss |
| 26 | fathers | father | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 fought | nsubj |
| 27 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 scoffed | conj |
| 28 | erewhile | erewhile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fought | obj |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 20 scoffed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flock | past | invaders = invader | Tuatha's race | guile | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent race=Theme | |||
| 2 | mock | gerund | invaders = invader not said here | voice and furtive mien | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme | ||||
| 3 | scoff | past | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | fight | past | your fathers | erewhile | thus property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent erewhile=Co-Agent | |||
| 5 | race | Tuatha | guile | nom race «event intransitive»: poss=agent in=place |
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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