The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 9
Thus much and more the legends old avouch-- ‘Ocean,’ King Conor’s shield; for wroth was he A prince’s head beneath his shade should crouch, And wroth Emania’s coming doom to see: Three times the shield sent forth that sea-like roar; And thrice the three chief waves on Erin’s shore
Who acts: you, Fiacre, shade, shield, wroth Emania · What happens: avouch, be, crouch, come, see, send · To what, where: Ocean, coming doom, Three times
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 (you, Fiacre, shade, shield), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 2 much | advmod |
| 2 | much | much | ADV | _ | 4 more | advmod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 more | cc |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 old | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 legends | det |
| 6 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 old | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 avouch | amod |
| 8 | avouch | avouch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 Ocean | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 Ocean | punct |
| 11 | Ocean | Ocean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 avouch | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 shield | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | ADP | _ | 17 shield | case |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 shield | nmod:poss |
| 15 | Conor | Conor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 King | flat |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 King | case |
| 17 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 avouch | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 head | punct |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 head | case |
| 20 | wroth | wroth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 head | amod |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 head | cop |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 head | nsubj |
| 23 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 prince | det |
| 24 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 head | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 prince | case |
| 26 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 avouch | obl |
| 27 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 31 crouch | mark |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 shade | nmod:poss |
| 29 | shade | shade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 crouch | nsubj |
| 30 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 crouch | aux |
| 31 | crouch | crouch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 head | acl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 doom | punct |
| 33 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 doom | cc |
| 34 | wroth | wroth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 Emania | amod |
| 35 | Emania | Emania | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 doom | nmod:poss |
| 36 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 35 Emania | case |
| 37 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 38 doom | amod |
| 38 | doom | doom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 crouch | obj |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 see | mark |
| 40 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 doom | acl |
| 41 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 43 times | punct |
| 42 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 43 times | nummod |
| 43 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 doom | obl:unmarked |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 shield | det |
| 45 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 sent | nsubj |
| 46 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 times | acl:relcl |
| 47 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 46 sent | advmod |
| 48 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 52 roar | mark |
| 49 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 like | compound |
| 50 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 49 sea | punct |
| 51 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 roar | amod |
| 52 | roar | roar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 sent | advcl |
| 53 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 59 waves | punct |
| 54 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 59 waves | cc |
| 55 | thrice | thrice | ADP | _ | 59 waves | case |
| 56 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 59 waves | det |
| 57 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 59 waves | nummod |
| 58 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 59 waves | amod |
| 59 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 avouch | obl |
| 60 | on | on | ADP | _ | 63 shore | case |
| 61 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 63 shore | nmod:poss |
| 62 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 61 Erin | case |
| 63 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 waves | nmod |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | avouch | imperative | you not said here | Ocean | ' King's shield; thrice the three chief waves on Erin's shore | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | Fiacre | for a prince's wroth head; a prince nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | crouch | should | Fiacre's shade | wroth Emania's coming doom Three times | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location doom=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come | gerund | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | see | to-infinitive | Fiacre's shade not said here | wroth Emania's coming doom Three times not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | send | past | the shield | Three times not said here | like roar advcl; forth property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Theme | |||
| 7 | shade | Fiacre | nom shade «state transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | doom | wroth Emania | nom doom «event 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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