The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 80
‘Ofttimes I heard in Etive’s hunting grounds Their deep-toned voices rolling like the sea-- My Naisi led me from our native bounds: Ainli and Ardan followed.
Who acts: I, Ofttimes, toned voices, Naisi, Ainli, Etive · What happens: hear, ground, tone, roll, lead, follow · To what, where: Ofttimes, hunting, toned voices, me, native bounds
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 (I, Ofttimes, toned voices, Naisi), 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 | 9 grounds | nsubj |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Ofttimes | acl:relcl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 hunting | case |
| 6 | Etive | Etive | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 hunting | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Etive | case |
| 8 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obl |
| 9 | grounds | ground | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 voices | nmod:poss |
| 11 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 toned | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 deep | punct |
| 13 | toned | tone | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 voices | amod |
| 14 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 grounds | obj |
| 15 | rolling | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 voices | acl |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 sea | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sea | det |
| 18 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rolling | obl |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 led | punct |
| 20 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 Naisi | nmod:poss |
| 21 | Naisi | Naisi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 led | nsubj |
| 22 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 grounds | conj |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 led | obj |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 bounds | case |
| 25 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 bounds | nmod:poss |
| 26 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 bounds | amod |
| 27 | bounds | bound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 led | obl |
| 28 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 29 Ainli | punct |
| 29 | Ainli | Ainli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 followed | nsubj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 Ardan | cc |
| 31 | Ardan | Ardan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Ainli | conj |
| 32 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 bounds | acl:relcl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 grounds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | I | Ofttimes not said here | Etive's hunting | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer ofttime=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | ground | present | Ofttimes | Ofttimes's toned voices | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V ADVP»: agent=Theme voice=Destination | ||||
| 3 | tone | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | roll | gerund | Ofttimes's toned voices not said here | like the sea | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | lead | past | My Naisi | me | our native bounds | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme from bound=Destination | |||
| 6 | follow | past | Ainli and Ardan | our native bounds not said here | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bound=Theme | ||||
| 7 | hunt | Etive | nom hunting «act 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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