The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 63
The Bonachts stood in marvel; then dashed on, Their terror past; and Conor sent decree, ‘Except the woman, see ye spare not one!
Who acts: Bonachts, Conor, ye · What happens: stand, dash on, send, except, see, not spare · To what, where: marvel, terror past, decree, woman, ye, one
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 (Bonachts, Conor, ye), 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 Bonachts | det |
| 2 | Bonachts | Bonacht | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 marvel | case |
| 5 | marvel | marvel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obl |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 dashed | punct |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 dashed | advmod |
| 8 | dashed | dash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADV | _ | 8 dashed | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 past | punct |
| 11 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 past | nmod:poss |
| 12 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 past | compound |
| 13 | past | past | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dashed | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 sent | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Conor | cc |
| 16 | Conor | Conor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 sent | nsubj |
| 17 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | parataxis |
| 18 | decree | decree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sent | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Except | punct |
| 20 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 Except | punct |
| 21 | Except | except | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 sent | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 woman | det |
| 23 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Except | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 see | punct |
| 25 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 Except | conj |
| 26 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 see | obj |
| 27 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 see | xcomp |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 spare | advmod |
| 29 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 spare | obj |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the Bonachts | marvel | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in marvel=Location | ||||
| 2 | dash on | past | the Bonachts not said here | Bonachts's terror past | then | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | send | past | Conor | decree | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent decree=Theme | ||||
| 4 | except | infinitive | Conor not said here | the woman | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | see | infinitive | Conor not said here | ye | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not spare | infinitive | ye not said here | one | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent one=Asset |
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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