The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 179
There sat the queen Throned in her car, listening the host’s applause: In swoon she fell, and lay as lie the dead.
Who acts: Queen · What happens: sit, throne, listen, fall, lay, lie · To what, where: queen, car, applause, swoon, dead
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 (Queen), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 sat | expl |
| 2 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 queen | det |
| 4 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sat | obj |
| 5 | Throned | throne | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 queen | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 car | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 car | nmod:poss |
| 8 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Throned | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 listening | punct |
| 10 | listening | listen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 sat | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 host | det |
| 12 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 applause | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 host | case |
| 14 | applause | applause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 listening | obj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 fell | punct |
| 16 | In | in | ADP | _ | 17 swoon | case |
| 17 | swoon | swoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fell | obl |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 fell | nsubj |
| 19 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sat | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 lay | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 lay | cc |
| 22 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 fell | advcl |
| 23 | as | as | ADV | _ | 24 lie | advmod |
| 24 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 lay | xcomp |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 dead | det |
| 26 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 lie | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | the queen | there | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location queen=Theme | ||||
| 2 | throne | participle | the queen not said here | Queen's car | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | listen | gerund | the host's applause | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | fall | past | Queen | swoon | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in swoon=Location | ||||
| 5 | lay | infinitive | Queen not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | lie | infinitive | Queen not said here | the dead | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dead=Theme |
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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