The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 93
In death he cried, ‘Lay me with forehead turned to Uladh’s realm;-- They shall not say that fugitive I died.’
Who acts: Prone, sword, I · What happens: cry, lay, turn, not say, die · To what, where: death, me, realm, fugitive · 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 (Prone, sword, I), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 death | case |
| 2 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cried | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Lay | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 Lay | punct |
| 7 | Lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 cried | advcl |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 Lay | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 forehead | case |
| 10 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Lay | obl |
| 11 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 Lay | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 realm | case |
| 13 | Uladh | Uladh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 realm | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 Uladh | case |
| 15 | realm | realm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turned | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 say | punct |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 say | punct |
| 18 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 say | nsubj |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 say | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 say | advmod |
| 21 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 cried | parataxis |
| 22 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 fugitive | det |
| 23 | fugitive | fugitive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 say | obj |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 died | nsubj |
| 25 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 fugitive | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 say | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Prone | death | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in death=Location | ||||
| 2 | lay | infinitive | Prone not said here | me | with forehead | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Result | |||
| 3 | turn | participle | Prone not said here | Uladh's realm | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to realm=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | not say speech: assert | shall | sword | that fugitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fugitive=Topic | ||||
| 5 | die | past | I | that fugitive not said here | tree rules |
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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