The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 139
Onward next To Sencha’s castle:--On the roof he knelt, Self-styled the kingdom’s chief astrologer, Waiting the unrisen stars.
Who acts: Sencha · What happens: kneel, style, wait · To what, where: roof, chief astrologer, unrisen stars
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 (Sencha), 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 | Onward | onward | ADV | _ | 2 next | advmod |
| 2 | next | next | ADV | _ | 6 castle | advmod |
| 3 | To | to | ADP | _ | 6 castle | case |
| 4 | Sencha | Sencha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 castle | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Sencha | case |
| 6 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 castle | punct |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 roof | punct |
| 9 | On | on | ADP | _ | 11 roof | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 roof | det |
| 11 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 castle | conj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 knelt | nsubj |
| 13 | knelt | kneel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 roof | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 styled | punct |
| 15 | Self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 styled | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Self | punct |
| 17 | styled | style | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 roof | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 kingdom | det |
| 19 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 astrologer | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 kingdom | case |
| 21 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 astrologer | amod |
| 22 | astrologer | astrologer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 styled | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Waiting | punct |
| 24 | Waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 styled | advcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 stars | det |
| 26 | unrisen | unrisen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 stars | amod |
| 27 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 Waiting | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 castle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kneel | past | Sencha | the roof not said here | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roof=Topic | ||||
| 2 | style | participle | the kingdom's chief astrologer | Self compound | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent astrologer=Result | ||||
| 3 | wait | gerund | the unrisen stars | 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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