The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 95
Meantime within Murthemné’s land its lord Cuchullain, musing like a listening hound, For many a rumour filled that time the air, Sat in remote Dûn Dalgan[27] all alone, Chief city of his realm.
Who acts: Meantime · What happens: muse, fill · To what, where: air
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 (Meantime), 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 | Meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 filled | nsubj |
| 2 | within | within | ADP | _ | 5 land | case |
| 3 | Murthemné | Murthemné | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 land | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 Murthemné | case |
| 5 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Meantime | nmod |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 lord | nmod:poss |
| 7 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 land | nmod |
| 8 | Cuchullain | Cuchullain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 lord | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 musing | punct |
| 10 | musing | muse | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Meantime | conj |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 hound | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 hound | det |
| 13 | listening | listening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hound | compound |
| 14 | hound | hound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 musing | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 filled | punct |
| 16 | For | for | ADP | _ | 17 many | case |
| 17 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 filled | obl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 rumour | det |
| 19 | rumour | rumour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 filled | nsubj |
| 20 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 time | det |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 filled | obj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 air | det |
| 24 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 filled | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Sat | punct |
| 26 | Sat | Saturday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 filled | obl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 Dûn | case |
| 28 | remote | remote | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Dûn | amod |
| 29 | Dûn | Dûn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Sat | nmod |
| 30 | Dalgan | Dalgan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Dûn | flat |
| 31 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 32 27 | punct |
| 32 | 27 | 27 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 Sat | nmod |
| 33 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 32 27 | punct |
| 34 | all | all | ADV | _ | 35 alone | advmod |
| 35 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 32 27 | advmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 city | punct |
| 37 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 city | compound |
| 38 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Sat | conj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 realm | case |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 realm | nmod:poss |
| 41 | realm | realm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 city | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | muse | gerund | Meantime within Murthemné's land Meantime's lord not said here | like a listening hound | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | fill | past | Meantime within Murthemné's land Meantime's lord | the air | saturday; time | for many; a rumour nsubj | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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