The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 78
‘Ofttimes for me they piled their shields and spears In Alba’s woods, roofing my winter bed: Thou man that build’st, this day, far down their biers, Be sure the spear and shield are nigh the head!
Who acts: Ofttimes, Thou, spear, man · What happens: pile, roof, man, be · To what, where: shields, woods, winter bed
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 (Ofttimes, Thou, spear, man), 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 Ofttimes | punct |
| 2 | Ofttimes | ofttime | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 piled | nsubj |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 me | case |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Ofttimes | nmod |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 piled | nsubj |
| 6 | piled | pile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 shields | nmod:poss |
| 8 | shields | shield | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 piled | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 spears | cc |
| 10 | spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 shields | conj |
| 11 | In | in | ADP | _ | 14 woods | case |
| 12 | Alba | Alba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 woods | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 Alba | case |
| 14 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 piled | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 roofing | punct |
| 16 | roofing | roof | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 piled | advcl |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 bed | nmod:poss |
| 18 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bed | compound |
| 19 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 roofing | obj |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 man | punct |
| 21 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 man | nsubj |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 nigh | nsubj |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 build’st | mark |
| 24 | build’st | build'st | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 man | acl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 day | punct |
| 26 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 day | det |
| 27 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 man | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 biers | punct |
| 29 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 32 biers | advmod |
| 30 | down | down | ADP | _ | 32 biers | case |
| 31 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 biers | nmod:poss |
| 32 | biers | bier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 nigh | nsubj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 sure | punct |
| 34 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 sure | cop |
| 35 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 biers | conj |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 spear | det |
| 37 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 sure | nsubj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 shield | cc |
| 39 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 spear | conj |
| 40 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 nigh | cop |
| 41 | nigh | nigh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 piled | conj |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 head | det |
| 43 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 nigh | nsubj |
| 44 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 piled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pile | past | Ofttimes for me | Ofttimes's shields and spears | Alba's woods | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent shield=Theme in wood=Destination | |||
| 2 | roof | gerund | Ofttimes for me not said here | my winter bed | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent bed=Destination | ||||
| 3 | man | Thou | build’st acl | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is | infinitive | the spear and shield | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | present | man and this day | Ofttimes's biers nsubj; the head nsubj; nigh property | tree rules |
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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