The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 133
Shepherds set The wolf to guard their fold.
Who acts: Shepherds · What happens: set, guard · To what, where: wolf, fold
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 (Shepherds), 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 | Shepherds | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 set | nsubj |
| 2 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wolf | det |
| 4 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 set | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 guard | mark |
| 6 | guard | guard | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 set | advcl |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 fold | nmod:poss |
| 8 | fold | fold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 guard | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | Shepherds | the wolf | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient wolf=Result | ||||
| 2 | guard | to-infinitive | Shepherds not said here | Shepherds's fold | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fold=Beneficiary |
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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