The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 27
And answered she: ‘The shape of Spirits Accursed that ride the storm:’ And he: ‘Be thine henceforth that demon form!’
Who acts: Spirits, shape · What happens: answer, accurs, ride, be · To what, where: flight, Spirits, storm, demon form
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Spirits, shape), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 answered | cc |
| 2 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 answered | obj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 shape | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 shape | punct |
| 6 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 shape | det |
| 7 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 answered | parataxis |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Spirits | case |
| 9 | Spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 shape | nmod |
| 10 | Accursed | accurs | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 Spirits | acl |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 ride | nsubj |
| 12 | ride | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 Spirits | acl:relcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 storm | det |
| 14 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ride | obj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 ’ | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | SYM | _ | 7 shape | discourse |
| 17 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 form | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 form | nsubj |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 he | punct |
| 20 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 form | punct |
| 21 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 form | cop |
| 22 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 26 form | nmod:poss |
| 23 | henceforth | henceforth | ADV | _ | 26 form | advmod |
| 24 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 form | det |
| 25 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 form | compound |
| 26 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 answered | conj |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 26 form | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 form | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | flight | the shape of Spirits parataxis | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | accurs | participle | Spirits not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | ride | present | Spirits | the storm | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent storm=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | infinitive | shape | thine demon form | thine nmod:poss; henceforth property | 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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