The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 17
That hour the royal host pierced through by grief, Clamoured, yet quailed at glance of Conal’s eye; While shouted Illan’s band, ‘Be thou our chief!
Who acts: eye · What happens: pierce, clamour, quail, shout, be, glance · To what, where: royal host, band, thou · 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 (eye), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 hour | det |
| 2 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 host | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 host | det |
| 4 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 host | amod |
| 5 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | pierced | pierce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 host | acl |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 pierced | obl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 grief | case |
| 9 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pierced | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Clamoured | punct |
| 11 | Clamoured | clamour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 host | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 quailed | punct |
| 13 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 14 quailed | cc |
| 14 | quailed | quail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 Clamoured | conj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 glance | case |
| 16 | glance | glance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 quailed | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 eye | case |
| 18 | Conal | Conal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 eye | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 Conal | case |
| 20 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 glance | nmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 shouted | punct |
| 22 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 23 shouted | mark |
| 23 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 host | conj |
| 24 | Illan | Illan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 band | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 Illan | case |
| 26 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 shouted | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 thou | punct |
| 28 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 thou | punct |
| 29 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 thou | cop |
| 30 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 shouted | ccomp |
| 31 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 chief | nmod:poss |
| 32 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 thou | obj |
| 33 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 host | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pierce | participle | the royal host that hour not said here | by grief | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | clamour | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | quail | participle | at glance of Conal's eye | vn flinch-40.5 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer at glance=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | shout speech: express | past | Illan's band | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent band=Topic | |||||
| 5 | is a | infinitive | thou | our chief obj | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | glance | Conal's eye | nom glance «act intransitive»: of=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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