The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 40
Thus, though elsewhere the sons of Erin strove From Aileach’s coast, and Uladh’s marble cliffs, To where by banks of Lee, and Beara’s cove, The fishers spread their nets and launched their skiffs, Round Darvra’s shores remained inviolate peace; There too the flocks and fields had best increase.
Who acts: sons, marble, cove, shores, flocks · What happens: strive, cliff, spread, launch, remain, have · To what, where: coast, nets, skiffs, inviolate peace, best increase
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 (sons, marble, cove, shores), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 9 strove | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 strove | punct |
| 3 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 9 strove | mark |
| 4 | elsewhere | elsewhere | ADV | _ | 6 sons | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sons | det |
| 6 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 strove | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Erin | case |
| 8 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sons | nmod |
| 9 | strove | strive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | From | from | ADP | _ | 13 coast | case |
| 11 | Aileach | Aileach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 coast | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 Aileach | case |
| 13 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 strove | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 cliffs | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 cliffs | cc |
| 16 | Uladh | Uladh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 marble | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 Uladh | case |
| 18 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cliffs | nsubj |
| 19 | cliffs | cliff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 strove | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 where | punct |
| 21 | To | to | ADP | _ | 22 where | case |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 strove | parataxis |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 banks | case |
| 24 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 where | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Lee | case |
| 26 | Lee | Lee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 banks | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 spread | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 spread | cc |
| 29 | Beara | Beara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 cove | nmod:poss |
| 30 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 29 Beara | case |
| 31 | cove | cove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 spread | nsubj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 spread | punct |
| 33 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 fishers | det |
| 34 | fishers | fisher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 spread | nsubj |
| 35 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 strove | conj |
| 36 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 nets | nmod:poss |
| 37 | nets | net | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 spread | obj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 launched | cc |
| 39 | launched | launch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 strove | conj |
| 40 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 skiffs | nmod:poss |
| 41 | skiffs | skiff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 launched | obj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 remained | punct |
| 43 | Round | Round | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 shores | nmod:poss |
| 44 | Darvra | Darvra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 Round | flat |
| 45 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 43 Round | case |
| 46 | shores | shore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 remained | nsubj |
| 47 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 strove | conj |
| 48 | inviolate | inviolate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 peace | amod |
| 49 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 remained | obj |
| 50 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 57 had | punct |
| 51 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 57 had | expl |
| 52 | too | too | ADV | _ | 57 had | advmod |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 flocks | det |
| 54 | flocks | flock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 57 had | nsubj |
| 55 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 fields | cc |
| 56 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 54 flocks | conj |
| 57 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 strove | conj |
| 58 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 59 increase | amod |
| 59 | increase | increase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 had | obj |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 strove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strive | past | the sons of Erin | Aileach's coast | thus property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cliff | Uladh's marble | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | spread | present | Beara's cove | fishers's nets | the fishers nsubj | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location net=Theme | |||
| 4 | launch | past | the sons of Erin not said here | fishers's skiffs | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skiff=Theme | ||||
| 5 | remain | past | Round's shores | inviolate peace | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme peace=Attribute | ||||
| 6 | have | past | the flocks and fields | best increase | there | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent increase=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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