The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 115
Three days went by: Then stood Cuchullain where great wood-ways met; And lo! betwixt four yews a warrior’s grave, The pillar-stone above it!
Who acts: Three days, betwixt four yews · What happens: go by, stand, meet, grave · To what, where: Cuchullain, great wood ways
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Three days, betwixt four yews), 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 days | nummod |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 went | obl |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 stood | punct |
| 6 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 stood | advmod |
| 7 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 8 | Cuchullain | Cuchullain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obj |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 great | advmod |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ways | amod |
| 11 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ways | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 wood | punct |
| 13 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 stood | obl |
| 14 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 ways | acl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 grave | punct |
| 16 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 grave | cc |
| 17 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 25 grave | discourse |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 17 lo | punct |
| 19 | betwixt | betwixt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 yews | amod |
| 20 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 yews | nummod |
| 21 | yews | yew | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 grave | nsubj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 warrior | det |
| 23 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 grave | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 warrior | case |
| 25 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 stone | punct |
| 27 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 stone | det |
| 28 | pillar | pillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 stone | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 pillar | punct |
| 30 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 grave | conj |
| 31 | above | above | ADP | _ | 32 it | case |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 stone | nmod |
| 33 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go by | past | Three days | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stand | past | Three days not said here | Cuchullain | then | great wood ways obl | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cuchullain=Stimulus | ||
| 3 | meet | participle | great wood ways not said here | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | grave | betwixt four yews | a warrior nmod:poss; the pillar stone above stone conj | tree rules |
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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