The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 32
Ailill from afar Furtively followed, stung by jealous spleen.
What happens: follow, sting
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 | Ailill | Ailill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 afar | nsubj |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 3 afar | case |
| 3 | afar | afar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | Furtively | furtively | ADV | _ | 5 followed | advmod |
| 5 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 afar | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 stung | punct |
| 7 | stung | sting | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 afar | parataxis |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 spleen | case |
| 9 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 spleen | amod |
| 10 | spleen | spleen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stung | obl:agent |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 afar | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | participle | furtively property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sting | participle | jealous spleen obl:agent | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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