The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 89
The battle ceased not till that day was done: With his own hand, at noontide, Fergus slew Maini, King Conor’s last surviving son: Old Eman’s walls and towers to earth he threw; And burned the city.
Who acts: battle, Fergus · What happens: not cease, do, slay, survive, throw, burn · To what, where: day, Maini, earth, city
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 (battle, Fergus), 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 battle | det |
| 2 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ceased | nsubj |
| 3 | ceased | cease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 ceased | advmod |
| 5 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 9 done | mark |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 day | det |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 done | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 done | aux:pass |
| 9 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ceased | advcl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 hand | punct |
| 11 | With | with | ADP | _ | 14 hand | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hand | nmod:poss |
| 13 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hand | amod |
| 14 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ceased | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 noontide | punct |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 noontide | case |
| 17 | noontide | noontide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hand | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 slew | punct |
| 19 | Fergus | Fergus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 slew | nsubj |
| 20 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 hand | conj |
| 21 | Maini | Maini | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 slew | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 son | punct |
| 23 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 son | nmod:poss |
| 24 | Conor | Conor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 King | flat |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 King | case |
| 26 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 son | amod |
| 27 | surviving | survive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 son | amod |
| 28 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Maini | appos |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 33 walls | punct |
| 30 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 walls | amod |
| 31 | Eman | Eman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 walls | nmod:poss |
| 32 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 31 Eman | case |
| 33 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 hand | conj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 towers | cc |
| 35 | towers | tower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 walls | conj |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 earth | case |
| 37 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 walls | nmod |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 threw | nsubj |
| 39 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 earth | acl:relcl |
| 40 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 burned | punct |
| 41 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 burned | cc |
| 42 | burned | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ceased | parataxis |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 city | det |
| 44 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 burned | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ceased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not cease | past | the battle | with battle's own hand and noontide and Eman's Old walls to earth and towers | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector with hand=Subeventuality | ||||
| 2 | do | past · passive | that day | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | slay | past | Fergus | Maini | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maini=Patient | ||||
| 4 | survive | gerund | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | throw | past | Fergus | earth not said here | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=Theme | ||||
| 6 | burn | past | the city | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent city=Theme |
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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