The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 166
Then, standing in his car, he clutched the spear And tugged it thrice.
Who acts: hand · What happens: stand, clutch, tug · To what, where: car, spear, Task
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 (hand), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 clutched | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 clutched | advcl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 car | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 car | nmod:poss |
| 6 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 standing | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 standing | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 clutched | nsubj |
| 9 | clutched | clutch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 spear | det |
| 11 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 clutched | obj |
| 12 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 tugged | cc |
| 13 | tugged | tug | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 clutched | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 tugged | obj |
| 15 | thrice | thrice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tugged | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 clutched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | gerund | hand not said here | hand's car | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in car=Location | ||||
| 2 | clutch | past | hand | the spear | then | vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spear=Theme | |||
| 3 | tug | past | hand not said here | Task | thrice property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=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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