The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 5
There fell those three Tuatha queens who gave The land their names--they fell by death discrowned:[17] There many a Gaelic chieftain found his grave: Thenceforth the races twain adjusted bound And right, at times by league, at times by war; Nor any reigned as yet from shore to shore.
Who acts: three Tuatha queens, names, death, many, Nor, queens · What happens: fall, give, discrown, find, adjust, reign · To what, where: three Tuatha queens, land, 17, shore
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 (three Tuatha queens, names, death, many), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 fell | expl |
| 2 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 queens | det |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 queens | nummod |
| 5 | Tuatha | Tuatha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 queens | compound |
| 6 | queens | queen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 fell | obj |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 gave | nsubj |
| 8 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 queens | acl:relcl |
| 9 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 land | det |
| 10 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | obj |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 names | nmod:poss |
| 12 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 gave | obj |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 fell | punct |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 fell | nsubj |
| 15 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fell | conj |
| 16 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 18 discrowned | mark |
| 17 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 discrowned | nsubj |
| 18 | discrowned | discrown | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 fell | advcl |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 found | punct |
| 20 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 21 17 | punct |
| 21 | 17 | 17 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 found | obl |
| 22 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 21 17 | punct |
| 23 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 28 found | expl |
| 24 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 found | nsubj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 chieftain | det |
| 26 | Gaelic | gaelic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 chieftain | amod |
| 27 | chieftain | chieftain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 found | nsubj |
| 28 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fell | conj |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 grave | nmod:poss |
| 30 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 found | obj |
| 31 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 35 twain | punct |
| 32 | Thenceforth | thenceforth | ADV | _ | 35 twain | advmod |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 twain | det |
| 34 | races | race | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 twain | compound |
| 35 | twain | twain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 found | obj |
| 36 | adjusted | adjust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 bound | amod |
| 37 | bound | bound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 twain | conj |
| 38 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 right | cc |
| 39 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 twain | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 times | punct |
| 41 | at | at | ADP | _ | 42 times | case |
| 42 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 twain | obl:unmarked |
| 43 | by | by | ADP | _ | 44 league | case |
| 44 | league | league | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 times | nmod |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 times | punct |
| 46 | at | at | ADP | _ | 47 times | case |
| 47 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 found | obl:unmarked |
| 48 | by | by | ADP | _ | 49 war | case |
| 49 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 times | nmod |
| 50 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 53 reigned | punct |
| 51 | Nor | Nor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 53 reigned | nsubj |
| 52 | any | any | ADV | _ | 53 reigned | advmod |
| 53 | reigned | reign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fell | conj |
| 54 | as | as | ADP | _ | 55 yet | case |
| 55 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 53 reigned | obl |
| 56 | from | from | ADP | _ | 57 shore | case |
| 57 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 reigned | obl |
| 58 | to | to | ADP | _ | 59 shore | case |
| 59 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 shore | nmod |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | that three Tuatha queens | there | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient queen=Result | ||||
| 2 | give | past | that three Tuatha queens | the land | queens's names obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent land=Recipient name=Theme | |||
| 3 | fall | past | names = name | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | discrown | past | death | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | find | past | many | 17 | there | time | a Gaelic chieftain nsubj; chieftain's grave obj; the races twain at times by league and adjusted bound obj | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent grave=Theme twain=Attribute | |
| 6 | adjust | participle | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | reign | past | Nor | shore to shore | any property | tree rules | |||
| 8 | name | queens = queen | nom name «communication 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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