The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 3
Three times, heart-grieved, that concourse raised their cry Piercing the centre of the low-hung sky.
Who acts: concourse, babes · What happens: grieve, raise, pierce, cry · To what, where: Three times, cry, centre
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 (concourse, babes), 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 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 times | nummod |
| 2 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 grieved | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 grieved | punct |
| 4 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grieved | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 heart | punct |
| 6 | grieved | grieve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 raised | punct |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 concourse | det |
| 9 | concourse | concourse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 raised | nsubj |
| 10 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 grieved | parataxis |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 cry | nmod:poss |
| 12 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 raised | obj |
| 13 | Piercing | pierce | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 raised | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 centre | det |
| 15 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Piercing | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 sky | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sky | det |
| 18 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 hung | amod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 low | punct |
| 20 | hung | hung | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 sky | amod |
| 21 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 centre | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 grieved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grieve | participle · passive | Three times | heart compound | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | raise | past | that concourse | babes's cry | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pierce | gerund | that concourse not said here | the centre of the hung sky | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent centre=Patient | ||||
| 4 | cry | babes = babe | nom cry «communication intransitive»: 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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