The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 148
There stood, or lay, The chiefs by Uladh worshipp’d.
What happens: stand, lay · To what, where: chiefs
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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 stood | expl |
| 2 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lay | punct |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 lay | cc |
| 5 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 stood | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 chiefs | punct |
| 7 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 chiefs | det |
| 8 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lay | obl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 ’d | case |
| 10 | Uladh | Uladh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 ’d | compound |
| 11 | worshipp | worshipp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ’d | compound |
| 12 | ’d | 'd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lay | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | lay | infinitive | the chiefs | by Uladh worshipp ’d | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by 'd=Destination |
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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