The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 85
The men of Erin reared the funeral stone, And piled the cairn, in Ogham characters Cyphering the sorrows of the Four thereon: And, age by age, that legend grey avers, Sad voices issuing from that grave foretold The fates of lovers young and kingdoms old.
Who acts: men, Ogham characters, age, Sad voices · What happens: rear, pile, cypher, aver, issue, foretell · To what, where: funeral stone, cairn, Ogham characters, sorrows, Sad voices, grave
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 (men, Ogham characters, age, Sad voices), 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 men | det |
| 2 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 reared | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Erin | case |
| 4 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 men | nmod |
| 5 | reared | rear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stone | det |
| 7 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stone | compound |
| 8 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reared | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 piled | punct |
| 10 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 piled | cc |
| 11 | piled | pile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 reared | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cairn | det |
| 13 | cairn | cairn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 piled | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 characters | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 characters | case |
| 16 | Ogham | Ogham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 characters | compound |
| 17 | characters | character | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 piled | obl |
| 18 | Cyphering | cypher | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 characters | acl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sorrows | det |
| 20 | sorrows | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 Cyphering | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Four | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Four | det |
| 23 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 sorrows | appos |
| 24 | thereon | thereon | ADV | _ | 23 Four | advmod |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 35 avers | punct |
| 26 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 avers | cc |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 age | punct |
| 28 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 avers | nsubj |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 age | case |
| 30 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 age | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 grey | punct |
| 32 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 grey | det |
| 33 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 grey | compound |
| 34 | grey | grey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 age | conj |
| 35 | avers | aver | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 reared | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 voices | punct |
| 37 | Sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 voices | amod |
| 38 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 avers | obj |
| 39 | issuing | issue | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 38 voices | acl |
| 40 | from | from | ADP | _ | 42 grave | case |
| 41 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 42 grave | det |
| 42 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 issuing | obl |
| 43 | foretold | foretell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 issuing | advcl |
| 44 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 fates | det |
| 45 | fates | fate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 foretold | obj |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 lovers | case |
| 47 | lovers | lover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 fates | nmod |
| 48 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 fates | amod |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 old | cc |
| 50 | kingdoms | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 51 old | obl:unmarked |
| 51 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 young | conj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 reared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rear | past | the men of Erin | the funeral stone | vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Patient | ||||
| 2 | pile | past | the men of Erin not said here | the cairn | Ogham characters | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cairn=Theme in character=Destination | |||
| 3 | cypher | gerund | Ogham characters not said here | the sorrows | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | aver | present | age by age and that legend grey | Sad voices | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | issue | gerund | Sad voices not said here | that grave | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | foretell | participle | Sad voices not said here | the fates of lovers | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fate=Theme | ||||
| 7 | fate | lovers | nom fate «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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