The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 156

In the self-same field That night their coursers grazed not; neither sat Their charioteers beside the self-same fire: Nor sent they, each to other, healing herbs.

Who acts: coursers, Nor · What happens: not graze, sit, send, heal · To what, where: same field, charioteers, same fire, wailings, other, herbs

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 (coursers, Nor), 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	_	6 field	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 field	det
3	self	self	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 same	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 self	punct
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 field	amod
6	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 grazed	obl
7	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 night	det
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 grazed	obl:unmarked
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 coursers	nmod:poss
10	coursers	courser	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 grazed	nsubj
11	grazed	graze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 grazed	advmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 sat	punct
14	neither	neither	ADV	_	15 sat	advmod
15	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 grazed	conj
16	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 charioteers	nmod:poss
17	charioteers	charioteer	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 sat	obj
18	beside	beside	ADP	_	23 fire	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 fire	det
20	self	self	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 same	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 self	punct
22	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 fire	amod
23	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sat	obl
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 sent	punct
25	Nor	Nor	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 sent	nsubj
26	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sat	conj
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 sent	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 each	punct
29	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	26 sent	obl
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 other	case
31	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 sent	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 healing	punct
33	healing	heal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 sent	conj
34	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 healing	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 grazed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not graze	past	wailings's coursers		the same field	night		vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sit	past	wailings's coursers not said here	wailings's charioteers	the same fire		neither property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent charioteer=Theme beside fire=Location
3	send	past	Nor	wailings = wailing	other		each obl	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to other=Destination
4	heal	gerund	Nor not said here	herbs				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent herb=Patient

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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🌲 The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 156

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The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 156