The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 3
Round Erin’s shores like leaves their ships were blown: Strewn on her reefs lay bard and warrior drowned: Not less the Gael upreared ere long that throne Two thousand years through all the West renowned.
Who acts: reefs, bard, Gael, West · What happens: blow, lie, drown, uprear, renown · To what, where: ships
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reefs, bard, Gael, West), 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 | Round | round | ADP | _ | 4 shores | case |
| 2 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 shores | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 Erin | case |
| 4 | shores | shore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 blown | obl |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 leaves | case |
| 6 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 shores | nmod |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 ships | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 blown | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 blown | aux:pass |
| 10 | blown | blow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 Strewn | punct |
| 12 | Strewn | Strewn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 blown | obl |
| 13 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 16 lay | mark |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 reefs | nmod:poss |
| 15 | reefs | reef | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 lay | nsubj |
| 16 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 blown | advcl |
| 17 | bard | bard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 drowned | nsubj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 warrior | cc |
| 19 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bard | conj |
| 20 | drowned | drown | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 lay | ccomp |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 upreared | punct |
| 22 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 less | advmod |
| 23 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 26 upreared | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Gael | det |
| 25 | Gael | Gael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 upreared | nsubj |
| 26 | upreared | uprear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 blown | conj |
| 27 | ere | ere | ADV | _ | 28 long | advmod |
| 28 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 upreared | xcomp |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 years | mark |
| 30 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 years | compound |
| 31 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 throne | flat |
| 32 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 throne | appos |
| 33 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 long | advcl |
| 34 | through | through | SCONJ | _ | 38 renowned | mark |
| 35 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 renowned | det:predet |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 West | det |
| 37 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 renowned | nsubj |
| 38 | renowned | renown | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 upreared | advcl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 blown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | past · passive | leaves's ships | round Erin's shores like leaves; Strewn obl | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | lie | past | Strewn's reefs | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | drown | past | bard and warrior | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | uprear | past | the Gael | less, long property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | renown | past | the West | 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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