The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 147
I sought the king: From hall deserted on to hall I roamed: I found him in his armoury walled around With mail of warriors dead.
Who acts: I, armoury · What happens: seek, desert, roam, find, wall around, mail · To what, where: king, hall, warriors
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, armoury), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 sought | nsubj |
| 2 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sought | obj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 hall | punct |
| 6 | From | from | ADP | _ | 7 hall | case |
| 7 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sought | obl |
| 8 | deserted | desert | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 hall | acl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 hall | case |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 hall | case |
| 11 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 deserted | obl |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 roamed | nsubj |
| 13 | roamed | roam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 hall | acl:relcl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 found | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 found | nsubj |
| 16 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sought | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 found | obj |
| 18 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 21 walled | mark |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 armoury | nmod:poss |
| 20 | armoury | armoury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 walled | nsubj |
| 21 | walled | wall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 found | advcl |
| 22 | around | around | ADV | _ | 21 walled | advmod |
| 23 | With | with | ADP | _ | 24 mail | case |
| 24 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 walled | obl | ||
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 warriors | case |
| 26 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 mail | nmod |
| 27 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 walled | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | past | I | the king | hall | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme | |||
| 2 | desert | participle | hall not said here | hall | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | roam | past | I | hall not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hall=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | find | past | I | King | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | ||||
| 5 | wall around | past | King's armoury | with mail of warriors; around property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | warriors | nom mail «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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