The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 77
A few years after the repulse of Meave, while the other warriors of Ulster were engaged on an invasion of Alba (Scotland), Cuchullain alone remained behind for the protection of his country.
Who acts: Cuchullain · What happens: engage, remain, repulse, invade, protect · To what, where: other warriors, invasion, Meave, Alba, country
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cuchullain), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 years | det |
| 2 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 years | amod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 repulse | nsubj |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 repulse | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 repulse | det |
| 6 | repulse | repulse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Meave | case |
| 8 | Meave | Meave | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 repulse | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 engaged | punct |
| 10 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 17 engaged | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 warriors | det |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 warriors | amod |
| 13 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 engaged | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Ulster | case |
| 15 | Ulster | Ulster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 warriors | nmod |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 engaged | aux:pass |
| 17 | engaged | engage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 repulse | parataxis |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 invasion | case |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 invasion | det |
| 20 | invasion | invasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 engaged | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Alba | case |
| 22 | Alba | Alba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 invasion | nmod |
| 23 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 24 Scotland | punct |
| 24 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Alba | appos |
| 25 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 24 Scotland | punct |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 remained | punct |
| 27 | Cuchullain | Cuchullain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 remained | nsubj |
| 28 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 29 remained | advmod |
| 29 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 engaged | conj |
| 30 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 29 remained | advmod |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 protection | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 protection | det |
| 33 | protection | protection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 remained | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 country | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 country | nmod:poss |
| 36 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 protection | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 repulse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | engage | past · passive | the other warriors of Ulster | a invasion of Alba | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | remain | past | Cuchullain | for the protection of Cuchullain's country; alone, behind property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | repulse | Meave | nom repulse «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | invade | Alba | nom invasion «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | protect | Cuchullain's country | nom protection «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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