The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 45
‘In those dread vaults, Magian and Alchemist, Supreme in every craft of brain and hand, The mountains’ mineral veins they beat and twist; And on red anvils forge them spear and brand For some predestined battle.
Who acts: mountains, red anvils · What happens: beat, twist, forge, predestine, craft · To what, where: mineral veins, mountains, dread vaults, brain
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 (mountains, red anvils), 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 | _ | 5 vaults | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 vaults | case |
| 3 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 vaults | det |
| 4 | dread | dread | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 vaults | amod |
| 5 | vaults | vault | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Magian | punct |
| 7 | Magian | Magian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 vaults | appos |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Alchemist | cc |
| 9 | Alchemist | Alchemist | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Magian | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Supreme | punct |
| 11 | Supreme | Supreme | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Magian | appos |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 craft | case |
| 13 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 craft | det |
| 14 | craft | craft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Supreme | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 brain | case |
| 16 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 craft | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 hand | cc |
| 18 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 brain | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 veins | punct |
| 20 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 mountains | det |
| 21 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 veins | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 21 mountains | case |
| 23 | mineral | mineral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 veins | compound |
| 24 | veins | vein | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Magian | conj |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 beat | nsubj |
| 26 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 veins | acl:relcl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 twist | cc |
| 28 | twist | twist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 beat | conj |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 forge | punct |
| 30 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 forge | cc |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 anvils | case |
| 32 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 anvils | amod |
| 33 | anvils | anvil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 forge | nsubj |
| 34 | forge | forge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 vaults | conj |
| 35 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 forge | obj |
| 36 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 forge | obj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 brand | cc |
| 38 | brand | brand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 spear | conj |
| 39 | For | for | ADP | _ | 42 battle | case |
| 40 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 42 battle | det |
| 41 | predestined | predestine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 battle | amod |
| 42 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 spear | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 vaults | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | present | mountains = mountain | the mountains's mineral veins not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location vein=Theme | ||||
| 2 | twist | present | mountains = mountain not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | forge | present | red anvils | mountains = mountain | spear and brand obj | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary spear=Product | |||
| 4 | predestine | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | craft | brain and hand | nom craft «act transitive»: of=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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