The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 202
The worse for Eman, and great Macha’s land-- Stand forth, my sister’s son!”
Who acts: land · What happens: stand
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 (land), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 worse | det |
| 2 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 Stand | advcl |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 Eman | case |
| 4 | Eman | Eman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 worse | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Stand | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Stand | cc |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Macha | amod |
| 8 | Macha | Macha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 land | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 Macha | case |
| 10 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Stand | nsubj |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 Stand | punct |
| 12 | Stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 12 Stand | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 son | punct |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 sister | nmod:poss |
| 16 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 son | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 sister | case |
| 18 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Stand | vocative |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 Stand | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Stand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | infinitive | great Macha's land | my sister's son vocative; forth property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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