The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 87
Upon the bank that day Stood up a Portent seen by none save him, A Shape not human.
Who acts: day, Portent · What happens: stand up, see, save · To what, where: bank, Portent, strength
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 (day, Portent), 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 | Upon | upon | ADP | _ | 3 bank | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bank | det |
| 3 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Stood | obl |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 day | det |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Stood | nsubj |
| 6 | Stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 Stood | compound:prt |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Portent | det |
| 9 | Portent | portent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 save | nsubj |
| 10 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 Portent | acl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 none | case |
| 12 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 10 seen | obl |
| 13 | save | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Stood | parataxis |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 save | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Shape | punct |
| 16 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 Shape | det |
| 17 | Shape | Shape | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 save | parataxis |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 human | advmod |
| 19 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Shape | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand up | past | that day | the bank | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon bank=Location | ||||
| 2 | see | participle | a Portent not said here | by none | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | save | present | a Portent | strength | a Shape parataxis | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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