The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 35
The Gaels, our scourge, and Erin’s sore disgrace, Advance, each day, their armies, clan on clan; Against them march thy host with mine, and take To wife my daughter, for thy children’s sake.’
Who acts: Erin · What happens: march, take, disgrace · To what, where: host, wife, Gaels
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 (Erin), 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 Gaels | det |
| 2 | Gaels | Gael | PROPN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 scourge | punct |
| 4 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 scourge | nmod:poss |
| 5 | scourge | scourge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Gaels | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 disgrace | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 disgrace | cc |
| 8 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 disgrace | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 Erin | case |
| 10 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 disgrace | amod |
| 11 | disgrace | disgrace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Gaels | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Advance | punct |
| 13 | Advance | Advance | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 disgrace | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 day | punct |
| 15 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 day | det |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Advance | appos |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 armies | punct |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 armies | nmod:poss |
| 19 | armies | army | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 disgrace | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 clan | punct |
| 21 | clan | clan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 armies | conj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 clan | case |
| 23 | clan | clan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 clan | nmod |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 march | punct |
| 25 | Against | against | ADP | _ | 26 them | case |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 march | obl |
| 27 | march | march | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 disgrace | parataxis |
| 28 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 29 host | nmod:poss |
| 29 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 march | obj |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 mine | case |
| 31 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 march | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 take | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 take | cc |
| 34 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 march | conj |
| 35 | To | to | PART | _ | 36 wife | mark |
| 36 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 take | obj |
| 37 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 38 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 take | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 sake | punct |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 44 sake | case |
| 41 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 42 children | nmod:poss |
| 42 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 sake | nmod:poss |
| 43 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 42 children | case |
| 44 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 take | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 disgrace | punct |
| 46 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Gaels | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | march | present | thy host | against people; with mine | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent host=Theme against they=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | take | infinitive | wife | for thy children's sake; my daughter obj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wife=Theme daughter=Destination | ||||
| 4 | disgrace | Erin | nom disgrace «state 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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