The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 48
Twixt southern Erin and my Uladh’s realm, Runs Neeth: across that river lies a ford; Speak to Cuchullain; “By that ford stand thou, Guarding thy land.
Who acts: Twixt · What happens: run, lie, speak, stand, guard · To what, where: Neeth, ford, river, Cuchullain, thou, land · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Twixt), 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 | Twixt | Twixt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Runs | nsubj |
| 2 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Erin | amod |
| 3 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Twixt | appos |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 realm | cc |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 realm | nmod:poss |
| 6 | Uladh | Uladh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 realm | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Uladh | case |
| 8 | realm | realm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Twixt | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Twixt | punct |
| 10 | Runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Neeth | Neeth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Runs | obj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 lies | punct |
| 13 | across | across | ADP | _ | 15 river | case |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 river | det |
| 15 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lies | obl |
| 16 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 Runs | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 ford | det |
| 18 | ford | ford | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lies | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 Speak | punct |
| 20 | Speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 lies | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 Cuchullain | case |
| 22 | Cuchullain | Cuchullain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Speak | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 stand | punct |
| 24 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 stand | punct |
| 25 | By | by | ADP | _ | 27 ford | case |
| 26 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 ford | det |
| 27 | ford | ford | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 stand | obl |
| 28 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 Runs | conj |
| 29 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 28 stand | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Guarding | punct |
| 31 | Guarding | guard | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 stand | advcl |
| 32 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 33 land | nmod:poss |
| 33 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 Guarding | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 Runs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | present | Twixt and my realm | Neeth | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neeth=Agent | ||||
| 2 | lie | present | Twixt and my realm not said here | a ford | that river | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ford=Theme | |||
| 3 | speak speech: other | infinitive | Twixt and my realm not said here | Cuchullain | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to cuchullain=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | stand in a quote | infinitive | Twixt and my realm not said here | thou | by that ford | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thou=Theme by ford=Destination | |||
| 5 | guard in a quote | gerund | Twixt and my realm not said here | thy land | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Beneficiary |
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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