The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 101
Amid them stood Cuchullain; near him, seen by him alone, That dread Mor Reega, now benign.
Who acts: That · What happens: stand, see, drea · To what, where: Cuchullain, Mor
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That), 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 | Amid | amid | ADP | _ | 2 them | case |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stood | obl |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Cuchullain | Cuchullain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
| 6 | near | near | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stood | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 seen | punct |
| 9 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 stood | conj |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 seen | obl:agent |
| 12 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 9 seen | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 dread | punct |
| 14 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 dread | nsubj |
| 15 | dread | drea | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | parataxis |
| 16 | Mor | Mor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 dread | obj |
| 17 | Reega | Reega | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Mor | flat |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 benign | punct |
| 19 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 benign | advmod |
| 20 | benign | benign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 dread | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Cuchullain | amid sons = son; near CUCHULLAIN | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cuchullain=Theme amid they=Destination | ||||
| 2 | see | participle | CUCHULLAIN obl:agent; alone property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | drea | past | That | Mor | tree rules |
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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