The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 69
Remembering days gone by, the victors there Wept for the dead: and when the king sent word To leave those Three unburied, stark and bare For beasts to rend, his mandate they abhorred, And dug the grave where those brave Brothers died; And, reverent, therein laid them, side by side.
Who acts: king, Three, mandate, brave Brothers, reverent · What happens: remember, go by, send, leave, unbury, stark · To what, where: days, word, grave, Bonachts, Wept
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, Three, mandate, brave Brothers), 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 | Remembering | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 Wept | csubj |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Remembering | obj |
| 3 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 days | acl |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 gone | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Remembering | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 victors | det |
| 7 | victors | victor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 Wept | nmod:desc |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 victors | advmod |
| 9 | Wept | Wept | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 dead | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 dead | det |
| 12 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Wept | nmod |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 sent | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sent | cc |
| 15 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 18 sent | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 king | det |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sent | nsubj |
| 18 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Wept | acl:relcl |
| 19 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sent | obj |
| 20 | To | to | PART | _ | 21 leave | mark |
| 21 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 sent | advcl |
| 22 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 23 Three | det |
| 23 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 unburied | nsubj |
| 24 | unburied | unbury | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 leave | ccomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 stark | punct |
| 26 | stark | stark | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 leave | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 bare | cc |
| 28 | bare | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 stark | conj |
| 29 | For | for | ADP | _ | 30 beasts | case |
| 30 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 bare | obl |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 rend | mark |
| 32 | rend | rend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 bare | xcomp |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 abhorred | punct |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 mandate | nmod:poss |
| 35 | mandate | mandate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 abhorred | nsubj |
| 36 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 abhorred | nsubj |
| 37 | abhorred | abhor | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 stark | advcl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 dug | punct |
| 39 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 dug | cc |
| 40 | dug | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 abhorred | conj |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 grave | det |
| 42 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 dug | obj |
| 43 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 47 died | advmod |
| 44 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 46 Brothers | det |
| 45 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 Brothers | amod |
| 46 | Brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 died | nsubj |
| 47 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 grave | acl:relcl |
| 48 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 51 reverent | punct |
| 49 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 reverent | cc |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 reverent | punct |
| 51 | reverent | reverent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sent | obl |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 laid | punct |
| 53 | therein | therein | ADV | _ | 54 laid | advmod |
| 54 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 reverent | acl:relcl |
| 55 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 54 laid | obj |
| 56 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 side | punct |
| 57 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 reverent | conj |
| 58 | by | by | ADP | _ | 59 side | case |
| 59 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 side | nmod |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 Wept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | gerund | day | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | go by | participle | days not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | send | past | the king | word | reverent and side by side obl | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | |||
| 4 | leave | to-infinitive | the king not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | unbury | past | that Three | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | stark | infinitive | the king not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | bear | infinitive | the king not said here | for beasts | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | rend | to-infinitive | the king not said here | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 9 | abhor | past | king's mandate | Bonachts = bonacht nsubj | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 10 | dig | past | king's mandate not said here | the grave | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent grave=Theme | ||||
| 11 | die | past | that brave Brothers | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 12 | lay | past | reverent and side by side not said here | Bonachts = bonacht | therein property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Result | |||
| 14 | mandate | king | nom mandate «communication transitive»: poss=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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