The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 70
They in youth Were friends: to slay that friend will lay a hand Icy as death upon Cuchullain’s heart.
Who acts: friend · What happens: slay, lay · To what, where: hand, heart, Were friends
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 (friend), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 friends | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 youth | case |
| 3 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 They | nmod |
| 4 | Were | were | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 friends | amod |
| 5 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 slay | punct |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 slay | mark |
| 8 | slay | slay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 friends | parataxis |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 friend | det |
| 10 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lay | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 lay | aux |
| 12 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 slay | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 hand | det |
| 14 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lay | obj |
| 15 | Icy | icy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 death | case |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 Icy | fixed |
| 17 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lay | obl |
| 18 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 21 heart | case |
| 19 | Cuchullain | Cuchullain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 heart | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 Cuchullain | case |
| 21 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lay | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 friends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slay | to-infinitive | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | lay | future | that friend | a hand | Cuchullain's heart | icy death | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme upon heart=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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