The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 183
Camp-followers first, then chiefs Innumerable were dragged along, or lay ’Neath broken axle, dead.
What happens: drag, lay, break · To what, where: Camp followers, Neath broken axle
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 | Camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 followers | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Camp | punct |
| 3 | followers | follower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 dragged | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 dragged | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 first | punct |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 dragged | advmod |
| 7 | chiefs | chiefs | PUNCT | _ | 10 dragged | punct |
| 8 | Innumerable | Innumerable | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 dragged | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 dragged | aux:pass |
| 10 | dragged | drag | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | along | along | ADV | _ | 10 dragged | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lay | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 lay | cc |
| 14 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 dragged | conj |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 Neath | punct |
| 16 | Neath | Neath | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 axle | compound |
| 17 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 axle | amod |
| 18 | axle | axle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lay | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 dead | punct |
| 20 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 axle | amod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 dragged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drag | past · passive | Camp followers | then | Innumerable nsubj:pass; along, first property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | lay | infinitive | Neath broken axle | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axle=Result | |||||
| 3 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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