The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 2
Then strode Fiacre to battle, iron-mailed: But straight the king to Conal Carnach sent, ‘My kingdom reels by rebel hosts assailed: My son goes forth to meet them.
Who acts: king, kingdom, son · What happens: stride, battle, mail, send, reel, assail · To what, where: Fiacre, hosts
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 (king, kingdom, son), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 strode | advmod |
| 2 | strode | stride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Fiacre | Fiacre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 strode | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 battle | mark |
| 5 | battle | battle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 strode | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mailed | punct |
| 7 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mailed | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 iron | punct |
| 9 | mailed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 battle | ccomp | |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 sent | punct |
| 11 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 sent | cc |
| 12 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 14 king | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sent | nsubj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Conal | case |
| 16 | Conal | Conal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 king | nmod |
| 17 | Carnach | Carnach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Conal | flat |
| 18 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 strode | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 reels | punct |
| 20 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 reels | punct |
| 21 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 22 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 reels | nsubj |
| 23 | reels | reel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 sent | conj |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 hosts | case |
| 25 | rebel | rebel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 hosts | compound |
| 26 | hosts | host | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 assailed | obl |
| 27 | assailed | assail | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 reels | ccomp |
| 28 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 31 goes | punct |
| 29 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 son | nmod:poss |
| 30 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 goes | nsubj |
| 31 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 strode | conj |
| 32 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 31 goes | advmod |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 meet | mark |
| 34 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 goes | advcl |
| 35 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 meet | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 strode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stride | past | Fiacre | then | vn run-51.3.2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location fiacre=Theme | ||||
| 2 | battle | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | participle | iron compound | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | send | past | the king to Conal | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | reel | present | My kingdom | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | assail | past | My kingdom not said here | by rebel hosts | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | go | present | My son | forth property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | meet | to-infinitive | My son not said here | hosts = host | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-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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