The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 137
Evening fell And stayed perforce that combat.
What happens: even, fall, stay · To what, where: perforce
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: 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 | Evening | even | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 fell | nsubj |
| 2 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 stayed | cc |
| 4 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fell | conj |
| 5 | perforce | perforce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stayed | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 combat | det |
| 7 | combat | combat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 perforce | nmod:unmarked |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | even | gerund | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | fall | past | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | stay | past | perforce that combat | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme perforce=Location |
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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