The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 188
Instant, Leagh Within his hand had lodged it.
Who acts: Instant Leagh · What happens: lodge · To what, where: hand
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 (Instant Leagh), 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 | Instant | instant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Leagh | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Instant | punct |
| 3 | Leagh | Leagh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 lodged | nsubj |
| 4 | Within | within | ADP | _ | 6 hand | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hand | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lodged | obl |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 lodged | aux |
| 8 | lodged | lodge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 lodged | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lodged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lodge | past · perfect | Instant Leagh | hand | within Leagh's hand | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme it=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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