The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 149
Nearest, crouched Great Conal Carnach patting of his sword Like nurse that lulls an infant.
Who acts: Nearest, nurse · What happens: crouch, lull · To what, where: Conal patting, infant
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 (Nearest, nurse), 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 | Nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 crouched | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nearest | punct |
| 3 | crouched | crouch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Great | Great | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Conal | flat |
| 5 | Conal | Conal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 patting | compound |
| 6 | Carnach | Carnach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Conal | flat |
| 7 | patting | patting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crouched | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 sword | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 sword | nmod:poss |
| 10 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 patting | nmod |
| 11 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 12 nurse | case |
| 12 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sword | nmod |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 lulls | nsubj |
| 14 | lulls | lull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 nurse | acl:relcl |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 infant | det |
| 16 | infant | infant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lulls | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 crouched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crouch | past | Nearest | Conal patting of King's sword like nurse | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location patting=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lull | present | nurse | a infant | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus infant=Experiencer |
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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