The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 40
‘Cathbad! give ear!’--for by him stood that hour The blind old Druid with the silver hair-- ‘To Alba make they; thence ere long with power Return in vengeance!
What happens: stand, make · To what, where: Cathbad give ear, hosts, Alba
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: 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Cathbad | punct |
| 2 | Cathbad | Cathbad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 ear | compound |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Cathbad | punct |
| 4 | give | give | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ear | amod |
| 5 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stood | obl |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 ear | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 ear | punct |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 stood | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 stood | mark |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stood | obl |
| 12 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 hour | mark |
| 14 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stood | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Druid | det |
| 16 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Druid | amod |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Druid | amod |
| 18 | Druid | druid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stood | obl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 hair | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 hair | det |
| 21 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hair | compound |
| 22 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Druid | nmod |
| 23 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 make | punct |
| 24 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 make | punct |
| 25 | To | to | ADP | _ | 26 Alba | case |
| 26 | Alba | Alba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 make | obl |
| 27 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 stood | parataxis |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 make | obj |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 long | punct |
| 30 | thence | thence | ADV | _ | 32 long | advmod |
| 31 | ere | ere | ADV | _ | 32 long | advmod |
| 32 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 stood | advmod |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 Return | case |
| 34 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 Return | compound |
| 35 | Return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 long | obl |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 vengeance | case |
| 37 | vengeance | vengeance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 Return | nmod |
| 38 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Cathbad give ear | thence | hour | by vale; the blind old Druid with the silver hair obl; long property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by he=Location | ||
| 2 | make | present | hosts = host | Alba | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |
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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