The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 234
Softly she paced, As though with woman’s foot, the grassy marge In violets diapered, and laid her head Upon Cuchullain’s shoulder.
Who acts: wave · What happens: pace, diaper, lay · To what, where: foot, violets, head, shoulder
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 (wave), 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 | Softly | softly | ADV | _ | 3 paced | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 paced | nsubj |
| 3 | paced | pace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 foot | punct |
| 5 | As | as | ADP | _ | 10 foot | case |
| 6 | though | though | ADV | _ | 10 foot | advmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 foot | case |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 foot | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 woman | case |
| 10 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 paced | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 marge | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 marge | det |
| 13 | grassy | grassy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 marge | amod |
| 14 | marge | marge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 foot | conj |
| 15 | In | in | ADP | _ | 16 violets | case |
| 16 | violets | violet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 marge | nmod |
| 17 | diapered | diaper | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 violets | acl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 laid | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 laid | cc |
| 20 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 paced | conj |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 head | nmod:poss |
| 22 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 laid | obj |
| 23 | Upon | upon | ADP | _ | 26 shoulder | case |
| 24 | Cuchullain | Cuchullain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 Cuchullain | case |
| 26 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 laid | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 paced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pace | past | wave | woman's foot and the grassy marge in violets | softly property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location foot=Theme | |||
| 2 | diaper | participle | violets not said here | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | lay | past | wave not said here | wave's head | Cuchullain's shoulder | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme upon shoulder=Destination |
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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