The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 171
Hours went by: That day they sought not rest on rock or mound, Held no discourse.
Who acts: Hours, warriors, rock · What happens: go by, not seek, rest, hold · To what, where: day, rock, discourse
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 (Hours, warriors, rock), 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 | Hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 2 went | obl |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
| 5 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sought | nsubj |
| 8 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 day | acl:relcl |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 sought | advmod |
| 10 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sought | xcomp |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 rock | case |
| 12 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rest | obl |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 mound | cc |
| 14 | mound | mound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rock | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Held | punct |
| 16 | Held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 rock | acl |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 discourse | det |
| 18 | discourse | discourse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Held | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go by | past | Hours | day | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not seek | past | warriors = warrior | that day not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | rest not said to happen | infinitive | warriors = warrior not said here | rock or mound | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on rock=Location | ||||
| 4 | hold | participle | rock or mound not said here | no discourse | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent discourse=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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