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The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 145

I sought the Druids’ College: in a hall Reed-strewn to smother sound they held debate On Firbolg and Dedannan contracts pledged Ere landed first the Gael.

Who acts: I, Druids, debate contracts, Ere · What happens: seek, hold, pledge, land · To what, where: College, hall Reed, smother sound, Gael

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, Druids, debate contracts, Ere), 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

nsubjdetnmod:posscaseobjpunctcasedetcompoundoblpunctamodmarkcompoundnsubjnsubjacl:relclcompoundcasenmodccconjnsubjparataxisnsubjccompadvmoddetoblpunctrootIPRONsoughtVERBtheDETDruidsNOUN’PARTCollegePROPN:PUNCTinADPaDEThallNOUNReedNOUN-PUNCTstrewnADJtoPARTsmotherNOUNsoundNOUNtheyPRONheldVERBdebateNOUNOnADPFirbolgPROPNandCCONJDedannanPROPNcontractsNOUNpledgedVERBErePROPNlandedVERBfirstADVtheDETGaelPROPN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs2 soughtnsubj
2soughtseekVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 Druidsdet
4DruidsdruidNOUNNumber=Plur6 Collegenmod:poss
5’'sPART_4 Druidscase
6CollegeCollegePROPNNumber=Sing2 soughtobj
7::PUNCT_11 Reedpunct
8ininADP_11 Reedcase
9aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art11 Reeddet
10hallhallNOUNNumber=Sing11 Reedcompound
11ReedreedNOUNNumber=Sing2 soughtobl
12--PUNCT_13 strewnpunct
13strewnstrewnADJDegree=Pos11 Reedamod
14totoPART_16 soundmark
15smothersmotherNOUNNumber=Sing16 soundcompound
16soundsoundNOUNNumber=Sing13 strewnnsubj
17theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs18 heldnsubj
18heldholdVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin16 soundacl:relcl
19debatedebateNOUNNumber=Sing24 contractscompound
20OnonADP_21 Firbolgcase
21FirbolgFirbolgPROPNNumber=Sing19 debatenmod
22andandCCONJ_23 Dedannancc
23DedannanDedannanPROPNNumber=Sing21 Firbolgconj
24contractscontractNOUNNumber=Plur25 pledgednsubj
25pledgedpledgeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 heldparataxis
26EreErePROPNNumber=Sing27 landednsubj
27landedlandVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin25 pledgedccomp
28firstfirstADVNumForm=Word NumType=Ord30 Gaeladvmod
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 Gaeldet
30GaelGaelPROPNNumber=Sing27 landedobl
31..PUNCT_2 soughtpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1seekpastIthe Druids's Collegea hall Reedvn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent college=Theme in reed=Location
2holdpastDruids = druidsmother sound not said herevn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Theme
3pledgepastdebate contractsvn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4landpastErethe Gaelvn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=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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