The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 118
Waiting there Stood up Iarion, champion of the queen, There stood, nor thence returned.
What happens: wait, stand up, stand, return · To what, where: Iarion
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: 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 | Waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 stood | advcl |
| 2 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Waiting | advmod |
| 3 | Stood | stand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Waiting | advcl |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 Stood | compound:prt |
| 5 | Iarion | Iarion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Stood | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 champion | punct |
| 7 | champion | champion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Iarion | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 queen | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 queen | det |
| 10 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 champion | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stood | punct |
| 12 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 stood | expl |
| 13 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 returned | punct |
| 15 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 17 returned | cc |
| 16 | thence | thence | ADV | _ | 17 returned | advmod |
| 17 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 stood | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | gerund | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stand up | participle | Iarion | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | stand | past | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | return | past | thence property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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