The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 126
Questioned I then on battle-plain, or when On frosty nights we couched beneath one rug, Ancestral claims, traditions of the clan?
Who acts: we · What happens: question, couch · To what, where: I, battle plain
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | Questioned | question | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Questioned | obj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Questioned | advmod |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 plain | case |
| 5 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 plain | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 battle | punct |
| 7 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Questioned | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 couched | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 couched | cc |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 couched | advmod |
| 11 | On | on | ADP | _ | 13 nights | case |
| 12 | frosty | frosty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 nights | amod |
| 13 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 couched | obl |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 couched | nsubj |
| 15 | couched | couch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Questioned | advcl |
| 16 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 18 rug | case |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 rug | nummod |
| 18 | rug | rug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 couched | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 claims | punct |
| 20 | Ancestral | ancestral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 claims | amod |
| 21 | claims | claim | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 rug | appos |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 traditions | punct |
| 23 | traditions | tradition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 claims | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 clan | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 clan | det |
| 26 | clan | clan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 traditions | nmod |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Questioned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | question speech: other | participle | I | battle plain | then | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||
| 2 | couch | past | we | night | beneath one rug | 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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