The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 4
O’er Taillten’s field God held the scales of Fate: That last dread battle closed the dire debate.
Who acts: field, dread battle · What happens: hold, close · To what, where: scales, dire debate
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 (field, dread battle), 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 | O’er | O'er | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 field | nmod:poss |
| 2 | Taillten | Taillten | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 O’er | flat |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 1 O’er | case |
| 4 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 held | nsubj |
| 5 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 field | appos |
| 6 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 scales | det |
| 8 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 held | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Fate | case |
| 10 | Fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 scales | nmod |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 closed | punct |
| 12 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 battle | det |
| 13 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 dread | amod |
| 14 | dread | dread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 battle | compound |
| 15 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 closed | nsubj |
| 16 | closed | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 held | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 debate | det |
| 18 | dire | dire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 debate | amod |
| 19 | debate | debate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 closed | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | O’er's field | the scales of Fate | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scale=Theme | ||||
| 2 | close | past | that dread battle | the dire debate | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent debate=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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