The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 222
A net lay near: He caged them; next he tied them to his car Wide-winged, and wailing loud.
Who acts: net, glebe · What happens: lay, cage, tie, wing, wail · To what, where: Birds
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 (net, glebe), 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 | 2 net | det |
| 2 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | near | near | ADV | _ | 3 lay | advmod |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 caged | punct |
| 6 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 caged | nsubj |
| 7 | caged | cage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lay | advcl |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 caged | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 tied | punct |
| 10 | next | next | ADV | _ | 12 tied | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 tied | nsubj |
| 12 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 caged | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 tied | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 car | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 car | nmod:poss |
| 16 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tied | obl |
| 17 | Wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 winged | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Wide | punct |
| 19 | winged | wing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 tied | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 wailing | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 wailing | cc |
| 22 | wailing | wail | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 lay | advcl |
| 23 | loud | loud | ADV | _ | 22 wailing | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present | a net | near property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | cage | past | glebe | Birds = bird | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tie | past | glebe | Birds = bird | to glebe's car; next property | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient to car=Co-Patient | |||
| 4 | wing | participle | glebe not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | wail | gerund | a net not said here | loud property | vn animal_sounds-38 «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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