The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 62
Yet he who laid them low Was beardless at the lip:--While thus they strove A second month went by.
Who acts: horde, Eterconnel, second month · What happens: lay, strive, go by · To what, where: Eterconnel, lip
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 (horde, Eterconnel, second month), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 4 laid | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 laid | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 laid | nsubj |
| 4 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 laid | obj |
| 6 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Was | amod |
| 7 | Was | Be | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 laid | obj |
| 8 | beardless | beardless | ADV | _ | 4 laid | advmod |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 lip | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lip | det |
| 11 | lip | lip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 laid | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 laid | punct |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 strove | punct |
| 14 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 17 strove | mark |
| 15 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 17 strove | advmod |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 strove | nsubj |
| 17 | strove | strive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 laid | conj |
| 18 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 month | det |
| 19 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 month | amod |
| 20 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 went | nsubj |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 strove | ccomp |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 went | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | past | horde | Eterconnel | the lip | who nsubj; low Was obj; beardless property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent they=Theme be=Destination | ||
| 2 | strive | past | Eterconnel | thus property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go by | past | a second month | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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