The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 109
Lithe his form In youthful prime: chain armour round him clung Bright as if woven of diamonds.
Who acts: Lithe form, Clan · What happens: cling, weave, form · To what, where: youthful prime
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 (Lithe form, Clan), 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 | Lithe | Lithe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 form | compound |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 form | nmod:poss |
| 3 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 clung | nsubj |
| 4 | In | in | ADP | _ | 6 prime | case |
| 5 | youthful | youthful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 prime | amod |
| 6 | prime | prime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 form | nmod |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 armour | punct |
| 8 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 armour | compound |
| 9 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 clung | nsubj |
| 10 | round | round | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 armour | nmod |
| 12 | clung | cling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 clung | xcomp |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 woven | mark |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 woven | mark |
| 16 | woven | weave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 clung | advcl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 diamonds | case |
| 18 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 woven | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 clung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cling | past | Clan's Lithe form in youthful prime | chain armour round Clan nsubj; bright property | vn cling-22.5 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | weave | participle | Clan's Lithe form in youthful prime not said here | of diamonds | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of diamond=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | form | Clan | youthful prime | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent in=place |
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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