The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 229
Cuchullain saw, And straightway round that creature’s neck high-held Locked the lithe arms no struggles could unwind.
Who acts: Cuchullain, struggles · What happens: see, hold, lock, unwind · To what, where: straightway, neck, lithe arms
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 (Cuchullain, struggles), 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 | Cuchullain | Cuchullain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 straightway | punct |
| 4 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 straightway | cc |
| 5 | straightway | straightway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obj |
| 6 | round | round | ADP | _ | 10 neck | case |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 creature | det |
| 8 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 neck | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 creature | case |
| 10 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obl |
| 11 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 held | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 high | punct |
| 13 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 neck | acl:relcl |
| 14 | Locked | lock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 held | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 arms | det |
| 16 | lithe | lithe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 arms | amod |
| 17 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 Locked | obj |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 struggles | det |
| 19 | struggles | struggle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 unwind | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 unwind | aux |
| 21 | unwind | unwind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 arms | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Cuchullain | straightway | round that creature's neck | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer straightway=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | hold | participle | that creature's neck not said here | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | lock | participle | the lithe arms | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient | |||||
| 4 | unwind | could | no struggles | the lithe arms not said here | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent arm=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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