The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 73
‘Dead are the eagles three of Culan’s peaks; The lions three of Uladh’s forest glades; The wonders three of Alba’s lakes and creeks; The loved ones three of Etive’s fair young maids: The crownless sons of Erin’s Throne are sped: The glories of the Red Branch Order dead.
Who acts: Dead, Red Branch Order · What happens: be, love, speed, glory · To what, where: eagles, crownless sons
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 (Dead, Red Branch Order), 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 Dead | punct |
| 2 | Dead | Dead | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 eagles | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 eagles | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 eagles | det |
| 5 | eagles | eagle | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 eagles | flat |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 peaks | case |
| 8 | Culan | Culan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 peaks | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 Culan | case |
| 10 | peaks | peak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 three | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 lions | punct |
| 12 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 lions | det |
| 13 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 eagles | conj |
| 14 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 lions | flat |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 glades | case |
| 16 | Uladh | Uladh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 glades | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 Uladh | case |
| 18 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 glades | compound |
| 19 | glades | glade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 three | nmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 wonders | punct |
| 21 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 wonders | det |
| 22 | wonders | wonder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 lions | conj |
| 23 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 wonders | flat |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 lakes | case |
| 25 | Alba | Alba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 lakes | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 Alba | case |
| 27 | lakes | lake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 three | nmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 creeks | cc |
| 29 | creeks | creek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 lakes | conj |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 ones | punct |
| 31 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 ones | det |
| 32 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 ones | amod |
| 33 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 wonders | conj |
| 34 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 ones | nmod |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 maids | case |
| 36 | Etive | Etive | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 maids | nmod:poss |
| 37 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 36 Etive | case |
| 38 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 maids | amod |
| 39 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 maids | amod |
| 40 | maids | maid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 three | nmod |
| 41 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 44 sons | punct |
| 42 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 sons | det |
| 43 | crownless | crownless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 sons | amod |
| 44 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 sped | nsubj |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 Throne | case |
| 46 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 Throne | nmod:poss |
| 47 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 46 Erin | case |
| 48 | Throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 sons | nmod |
| 49 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 50 sped | aux:pass |
| 50 | sped | speed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 ones | acl:relcl |
| 51 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 53 glories | punct |
| 52 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 glories | det |
| 53 | glories | glory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 wonders | conj |
| 54 | of | of | ADP | _ | 58 Order | case |
| 55 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 58 Order | det |
| 56 | Red | Red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 58 Order | amod |
| 57 | Branch | Branch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 58 Order | compound |
| 58 | Order | Order | PROPN | Number=Sing | 53 glories | nmod |
| 59 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 glories | amod |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 eagles | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Dead | the eagles and the lions and the wonders and the loved ones three of Etive's fair young maids and the glories of the Red Branch Order | the lions and the wonders and the loved ones three of Etive's fair young maids and the glories of the Red Branch Order conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | love | participle | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | speed | present · passive | the crownless sons of Erin's Throne | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Agent | |||||
| 4 | glory | the Red Branch Order | nom glory «state 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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