The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 43
‘Some say that, mid the mountains’ sunless walls, They throng beneath their stony firmament, An iron-handed race.
Who acts: Some, walls · What happens: say, throng, hand · To what, where: that, stony firmament · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Some, walls), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
| 2 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 say | nsubj |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 say | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 mid | punct |
| 6 | mid | mid | X | _ | 3 say | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mountains | det |
| 8 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 walls | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 8 mountains | case |
| 10 | sunless | sunless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 walls | amod |
| 11 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 mid | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 throng | punct |
| 13 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 throng | nsubj |
| 14 | throng | throng | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 say | conj |
| 15 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 18 firmament | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 firmament | nmod:poss |
| 17 | stony | stony | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 firmament | amod |
| 18 | firmament | firmament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 throng | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 race | punct |
| 20 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 race | det |
| 21 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 handed | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 iron | punct |
| 23 | handed | hand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 race | amod |
| 24 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 firmament | appos |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Some | that | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic | ||||
| 2 | throng | present | walls = wall | walls's stony firmament | vn swarm-47.5.1-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath firmament=Location | ||||
| 3 | hand | participle | iron compound | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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