The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 114
Sleep a three days’ sleep Whilst I thy semblance bearing meet thy foes.’
Who acts: I, three days · What happens: meet, sleep · To what, where: foes, Sleep sleep
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 (I, three days), 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 | Sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sleep | compound |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 days | det |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 days | nummod |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sleep | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 4 days | case |
| 6 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | Whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 12 meet | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 meet | nsubj |
| 9 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 bearing | nmod:poss |
| 10 | semblance | semblance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bearing | compound |
| 11 | bearing | bearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 meet | nsubj |
| 12 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sleep | advcl |
| 13 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 foes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | foes | foe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 meet | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sleep | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 sleep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | present | I | thy foes | thy semblance bearing nsubj | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foe=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | sleep | a three days | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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